UK needs a battery gigafactory - and fast: Without it, car manufacturing currently carried out in the UK will move overseas, observers warn

摘要

The calls for the UK to gain its own 'gigafactory' to make batteries for electric cars have grown so loud over the past couple of years that it even became an election issue. Both the Conservatives and Labour have pledged to fund gigafactories, with Labour going so far as to promise ￡2 billion to finance half the cost of three gigafactories, to be located in south Wales, Stoke and Swindon. The Conservatives, meanwhile, promised "a gigafactory" without costing it.