UK, 28 February 2024: Somerset will be home to a new multi-billion-pound electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility in the UK, it was confirmed today. Agratas, Tata Group’s global battery business, has confirmed that it will build a gigafactory on the Gravity Smart Campus near Bridgwater, Somerset.
Agratas, Tata Group’s global battery business, will build Britain’s biggest battery manufacturing facility at the Gravity Smart Campus near Bridgwater, Somerset. Agratas is taking a community-first approach, holding an introductory event in the coming weeks for locals to learn more about the company and meet the team.
Parliament's cross-party Business and Trade Committee is holding an inquiry into the UK's electric vehicle battery manufacturing sector. Its chairman Darren Jones, said Tata's decision to site the new plant in the UK was "very welcome" but he raised questions over the scale of the subsidies provided.
Tata will build the electric vehicle battery plant in Somerset which will create 4,000 jobs.
The future site of the UK's biggest electric vehicle battery manufacturing facility has been confirmed. Jaguar Land Rover-owner Tata says it will invest £4bn in a brownfield site near Bridgwater in Somerset.
The expansion of the site would make EVE's plant twice the size of Nissan’s electric battery factory in Sunderland, a city in the North East of England. "The UK continues to be a magnet for big investments," said Dan Coatsworth, investment analyst at AJ Bell.