That’s one significant shame. However, setting up a company of that size without the backing of someone equally as significant and actual cash from the government other than the usual blah blah the government are so exceptional at blurting without providing the sort of real backing that would keep a startup of this proportion afloat is all but impossible.
There’s also the question of customers, there’s no guarantee that any EU customer would take a battery built in the UK over one built within their borders, in fact I’d pretty much guarantee they wouldn’t and that taxes/levies and paperwork would be in place to ensure it. Thus we’re trying to find customers who don’t have a similar factory locally or create manufacturing within the UK of a size suitable to make the factory viable. In other words we’d need Nissan plus others to commit to a very heavy EV plan over the next 50 years.
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