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There’s a really important (and often overlooked) point here.
If, as rumoured, Tata builds a battery factory in the UK, actually it’s prob not Tata but another company - likely Envision AESC - which will actually be MAKING the batteries.
UK will be getting MORE reliant on China.
If, as rumoured, Tata builds a battery factory in the UK, actually it’s prob not Tata but another company - likely Envision AESC - which will actually be MAKING the batteries.
UK will be getting MORE reliant on China.
This goes to a deeper point. For the most part, the car companies whose badges go on the vehicles we buy don’t make the batteries inside them.
They invariably outsource 🔋production to other firms you’ve probably never heard of, most of which are Asian. Many of which are Chinese.
They invariably outsource 🔋production to other firms you’ve probably never heard of, most of which are Asian. Many of which are Chinese.
This is something I write about at some length in #materialworld. Perhaps the most interesting thing about the world’s first “gigafactory” - the Tesla plant in Nevada - is that it’s NOT Tesla making the batteries - it’s Panasonic. 
