Council identifies site near city’s airport and hopes production will start by 2025
Coventry city council intends to secure pre-emptive planning permission for a “gigafactory” beside the city’s airport to make electric car batteries, in the latest effort by UK authorities to attract investment.
The government has identified investment in battery factories as a key goal to keep automotive jobs as the sector moves away from the internal combustion engine. Only one company, however, a startup called BritishVolt, has so far announced a project to build a UK battery factory.