UK May Get Second Battery Gigafactory To Replace Coventry Airport ++ The Coventry city council and the Coventry Airport want to raise £2-billion to make it happen.
After securing its first battery manufacturing facility, which will be built by Britishvolt for £2.6-billion in Northumberland, the United Kingdom is close to setting up the creation of another, this time in Coventry. It will be a collaborative effort by the Coventry city council and the local airport that plan to raise £2-billion in order to make it happen.
The UK government has made £500 million in funding available for such a project and the parties interested in creating the Coventry gigafactory will want to secure it. If the project does commence, it is expected to provide some 4,000 jobs and it is hoped that it will become operational by 2025.
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A CGI of how a gigafactory on the Coventry Airport site might look (Image: Coventry Telegraph)
Coventry is being put forward for the location of a huge gigafactory to make batteries for electric cars, with Coventry Airport identified as a suitable site.
The project, which would create around 4,000 jobs in the factory alone and thousands more in the supply chain, is being driven by a joint venture partnership between Coventry City Council and The Rigby Group, which owns Coventry Airport.