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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.

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