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are older workers. there is a fear about how many won t be able to step back into theirjobs. faisal islam, bbc news. nissan has announced a major expansion of electric vehicle production at its car plant in sunderland, which will create more than 1,600 newjobs. the japanese car maker says it will build its new generation all electric model there using batteries made on site. our business editor simonjack has more. these are the new engines of the world automotive economy. a new battery factory will make 100,000 of them, to be fitted to a brand new model at a plant supplied by its own renewable energy grid. a £1 billion investment, creating over 6,000 jobs here and in the supply chain. today we re announcing the world s first manufacturing ecosystem, in sunderland, because of the skill and competencies of our workforce
jabs will be a liberator, and they will enable people to travel. and a royal reunion, princes william and harry will come together to unveil a statue of their mother, diana, princess of wales, on what would have been her 60th birthday good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the japanese car maker, nissan has announced a major expansion of electric vehicle production at its car plant in sunderland. the development will see the creation of more than 1,500 jobs at the site and several thousand more in the supply chain. most of these will facilitate the manufacture of the company s new generation, all electric model at the site.
in sunderland which will create more than 1,600 newjobs. the japanese car maker says it will build its new generation all electric model at the site. our business editor simonjack has more. these are the new engines of the world automotive economy. a new battery factory will make 100,000 of them, to be fitted to a brand new model, at a plant supplied by its own renewable energy grid. a £1 billion investment, creating over 6,000 jobs here and in the supply chain. today we re announcing the world s first manufacturing ecosystem, in sunderland, because of the skill and competencies of our workforce and the competitiveness of this plant. i do believe that sunderland will become our flagship business model to apply in other parts of the world. the prime minister was on site, as you might expect, after a government contribution of around £100 million to the project.
most of these will facilitate the manufacture of the company s new generation, all electric model at the site. alongside this, partner company, envision aesc, will build a new electric battery plant which it believes will produce enough batteries to power over 100,000 nissan electric vehicles each year. nissan hopes the site will be operational by 2024, when the level of uk made components in cars manufactured in the uk is required to start increasing, in line with the terms of the uk s trade deal with the eu. the development has already received billions of pounds worth of funding, with the government thought to have contributed tens of millions of pounds towards the cost. this morning, prime minister boris johnson has said the expansion is a major vote of confidence in the uk and our highly skilled workers in the north east . nissan s chief operating officer ashwani gupta has been speaking to our business editor, simonjack.