Nissan desires to construct a large battery manufacturing unit at its Sunderland automobile meeting plant in England, the Monetary Instances reported, citing folks briefed on the discussions.
The battery manufacturing unit would assist the manufacturing of 200,000 battery-powered automobiles a yr, the paper stated.
The Japanese automaker is in superior talks with the British authorities for monetary assist price no less than tens of hundreds of thousands of kilos, the report stated.
The manufacturing unit can be run by Nissan’s Chinese language battery provider Envision AESC, which already makes batteries for the Nissan Leaf subsequent to the Sunderland plant, which builds the electrical hatchback for European markets.