{"id":10847,"date":"2023-07-22T15:37:24","date_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/tatas-gigafactory-gives-britains-battery-industry-potential-at-last\/"},"modified":"2023-07-22T15:37:24","modified_gmt":"2023-07-22T13:37:24","slug":"tatas-gigafactory-gives-britains-battery-industry-potential-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/tatas-gigafactory-gives-britains-battery-industry-potential-at-last\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata\u2019s gigafactory gives Britain\u2019s battery industry potential at last"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Jaguar Land Rover owner\u2019s new plant should encourage more similar investments in the UK by others<\/p>\n<p>France has four. Germany has nine. The US has 34. China has a staggering 283. Around the world, countries are racing to announce plans for huge gigafactories to supply the batteries to power the electric car era.<\/p>\n<p>By contrast, the presence of only one large UK gigafactory project with big financial backers \u2013 supplying Nissan in Sunderland \u2013 was growing increasingly alarming. That changed last week as Jaguar Land Rover\u2019s owner, Tata Group, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/jul\/19\/jaguar-land-rover-owner-confirms-4bn-somerset-gigafactory-plans\" title=\"\">chose the UK for a new \u00a34bn battery factory<\/a>. It had considered a rival site in Spain for the plant.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/jul\/22\/tatas-gigafactory-gives-britains-battery-industry-potential-at-last\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/be61aafb359034f980eb36369ec906aa25e2a0bf\/0_201_8171_4902\/master\/8171.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=d3c300c49459f1d29200cdfdf22e9a53\" title=\"Tata\u2019s gigafactory gives Britain\u2019s battery industry potential at last\" \/>The Jaguar Land Rover owner\u2019s new plant should encourage more similar investments in the UK by others<br \/>\nFrance has four. Germany has nine. The US has 34. China has a staggering 283. Around the world, countries are racing to announce plans for huge gigafactories to supply the batteries to power the electric car era.<br \/>\nBy contrast, the presence of only one large UK gigafactory project with big financial backers \u2013 supplying Nissan in Sunderland \u2013 was growing increasingly alarming. That changed last week as Jaguar Land Rover\u2019s owner, Tata Group, chose the UK for a new \u00a34bn battery factory. It had considered a rival site in Spain for the plant. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jaguar Land Rover owner\u2019s new plant should encourage more similar investments in the UK by others France has four. Germany has nine. The US has 34. China has a staggering 283. Around the world, countries are racing to announce plans for huge gigafactories to supply the batteries to power the electric car era. By &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/22\/tatas-gigafactory-gives-britains-battery-industry-potential-at-last\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tata\u2019s gigafactory gives Britain\u2019s battery industry potential at last<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}