{"id":3419,"date":"2021-10-25T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/uk-battery-gigafactory-plans-huge-expansion-as-electric-car-demand-soars\/"},"modified":"2021-10-25T13:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T11:39:58","slug":"uk-battery-gigafactory-plans-huge-expansion-as-electric-car-demand-soars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/uk-battery-gigafactory-plans-huge-expansion-as-electric-car-demand-soars\/","title":{"rendered":"UK battery \u2018gigafactory\u2019 plans huge expansion as electric car demand soars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Envision\u2019s Sunderland plant produces batteries for the Nissan Leaf and other electric vehicles<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese owner of the UK\u2019s only large-scale battery factory has revealed plans for a big expansion that will put the plant in Sunderland among the biggest electric vehicle facilities in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Envision said annual capacity at the plant would eventually rise to 38 gigawatt hours (GWh), an increase from a previous plan of 11GWh that was announced in July as part of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/jul\/01\/nissan-sets-out-plans-for-1bn-electric-car-hub-in-sunderland\">supply deal for the Japanese carmaker Nissan\u2019s Sunderland plant<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/oct\/25\/uk-battery-gigafactory-electric-car-sunderland-envision-nissan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/4a7e27b47812c236bb3dc4891722830ecf69bdaa\/0_92_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=476477b4ef320186e291df9b352e38b6\" title=\"UK battery \u2018gigafactory\u2019 plans huge expansion as electric car demand soars\" \/>Envision\u2019s Sunderland plant produces batteries for the Nissan Leaf and other electric vehicles<br \/>\nThe Chinese owner of the UK\u2019s only large-scale battery factory has revealed plans for a big expansion that will put the plant in Sunderland among the biggest electric vehicle facilities in Europe.<br \/>\nEnvision said annual capacity at the plant would eventually rise to 38 gigawatt hours (GWh), an increase from a previous plan of 11GWh that was announced in July as part of a supply deal for the Japanese carmaker Nissan\u2019s Sunderland plant. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Envision\u2019s Sunderland plant produces batteries for the Nissan Leaf and other electric vehicles The Chinese owner of the UK\u2019s only large-scale battery factory has revealed plans for a big expansion that will put the plant in Sunderland among the biggest electric vehicle facilities in Europe. Envision said annual capacity at the plant would eventually rise &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/25\/uk-battery-gigafactory-plans-huge-expansion-as-electric-car-demand-soars\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK battery \u2018gigafactory\u2019 plans huge expansion as electric car demand soars<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3420,"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\/3419"}],"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=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}