Tesla and Panasonic’s Giga Nevada accounts for the majority of it with 37 GWh of annual capacity, making it the world’s largest battery manufacturing plant. European countries collectively make up for 68 GWh or around 10% of global battery manufacturing.
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.
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.
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.
The new plant is expected to create 4,000 jobs and thousands more in the supply chain. Martin Bellamy, chairman of Gravity, told BBC Radio Somerset the factory will be around "six or seven million square feet" and claimed it will be among the "biggest buildings in the country". Tata says battery production is set to begin there in 2026.