A £450m project to build a 1,000-job electric vehicle battery plant in Sunderland is now under way after a ceremony set construction. in motion.
Battery firm Envision AESC first launched plans to build the plant – its second in the North East – back in the summer of 2021, with its multimillion-pound investment forming part of a wider £1bn project with Nissan and Sunderland City Council which will led to the creation of thousands of new jobs. Now the company has marked 10 years of electric vehicle battery production in the UK with the start of construction on its latest gigafactory.
The plant will have a capacity of 12 GWh and employ over 1,000 people once operational, producing enough batteries to power more than 100,000 electric vehicles. The batteries set to roll out of the plant will be AESC’s latest generation of battery, which will have 30% more energy density, improving range and efficiency.
