Ford and Samsung consider Britain for electric battery gigafactories
Some of the world’s greatest carmakers and technological know-how organizations are mulling strategies to develop battery “gigafactories” in the Uk amid federal government overtures to the sector.
6 firms, together with carmakers Ford and Nissan and South Korean electronics giants LG and Samsung, are in conversations with the Govt in excess of spots for battery factories in Britain, the Monetary Occasions claimed.
Also among the interested firms are begin-ups BritishVolt, which publicly discovered its interest past 12 months, and Slovakia’s InoBat.
Ford is now thinking about possible spots for a battery supplier for its Transit Custom made, an all-electric powered van that is due to go into creation in Turkey in 2023.
A Ford spokesman mentioned: “As we have beforehand mentioned, we will affirm the battery supplier for the Transit Custom made closer to start.” InaBat, LG and Samsung did not respond to requests for remark. In May possibly, it was claimed Nissan could develop a battery manufacturing facility to guidance its Sunderland plant.
A Govt spokesman mentioned it was “dedicated to securing gigafactories, and go on[s] to do the job intently with traders and car manufacturers to progress strategies to mass create batteries in the UK”.
Britain so significantly has only a person firm with strategies for a gigafactory in the Uk. BritishVolt, a £2.6bn begin-up established in 2019, would like to build a production web-site around Blyth for its electric powered batteries.