Electric Vehicles: Batteries
(asked on 17th April 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government how many UK-based companies produce batteries for electric vehicles; and what is their collective capacity.
Answered by
Lord Offord of Garvel
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 23rd April 2024
AESC currently has a 1.9GWh facility operational in Sunderland. The UK has a further 52GWh per annum battery capacity committed – 12GWh from the AESC Gigafactory under construction in Sunderland and a further 40GWh from the planned Agratas Gigafactory. This is over half the capacity needed to meet industry demand forecasts of around 90GWh by 2030.