The company behind a 3,000-job battery gigafactory in Northumberland has signed a multimillion-pound deal to develop its next generation of battery cells.
Britishvolt has signed a two-year co-development framework with the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) which will focus on increased energy density materials to produce and test batteries with greater performance and range.
The link up with Coventry-based UKBIC, a national battery manufacturing development facility providing battery manufacturing scale-up, comes after last week’s announcement that Britishvolt had secured the £1.7bn funding needed to make its plans for a gigafactory near Blyth a reality.
