Nissan planning new electric car battery ‘gigafactory’ for Sunderland – report
by Rupert Neate from Technology | The Guardian on (#5JAQ7)
Japanese carmaker reportedly wants millions in government support for new 6GWh plant at existing site
Nissan is understood to be asking the UK government to provide tens of millions of pounds to build a new electric car battery gigafactory" in Sunderland .
The Japanese carmaker hopes to support the construction of a factory, that could produce up to 200,000 batteries a year, at Nissan's existing Sunderland site. The facility would be run by the company's Chinese battery maker Envision AESC.
It is slated to open in 2024 and would produce 6 gigawatt hours of battery capacity a year, far more than Nissan's existing Sunderland plant, which has a capacity of 1.9GWh. It would still be dwarfed by Tesla's 35GWh gigafactory in Nevada in the US.
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