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.
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.