Land Rover is working on a massive new battery Gigafactory in the English region of Teeside, in the northeast. The new factory will provide electric components for JLR’s new generation of electrified vehicles.
Land Rover is working on a massive new battery Gigafactory in the English region of Teeside, in the northeast. The new factory will provide electric components for JLR’s new generation of electrified vehicles.
JLR is partnering with lithium battery maker Envision AESC, which was founded in 2007 to supply batteries to Nissan. They have already started work on a factory worth £450 million to create batteries for Nissan’s Sunderland, England factory.
The spot where the factory would go is the former home of Teeside Steelworks, the last of the many steel mills that once lined the River Tees, driving the local economy to success. In the past few decades, the British steel industry has collapsed, and the Redcar furnace closed in 2015, taking the area’s industry and success with it.
The battery factory would replace that Redcar facility, a 4,500-acre site. The entire steelworks site is being repurposed as a carbon-neutral zone, with a focus on technologies like batteries and carbon capture facilities.
Though things are yet to be announced, discussions seem far along, and the facility would be key for Jaguar Land Rover’s goals to fully electrify Jaguar by 2025 and create electric options for most Land Rover vehicles.
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