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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Jasper Jolly

BIZARRE: Uk faces gigafactory gap that could stifle its ev industry say mps | Mind Blowing Facts

Workers in the cell manufacture (clean room) area at AESC’s gigafactory in Sunderland
Workers at AESC’s gigafactory in Sunderland, north-east England. Photograph: Richard Saker/The Guardian

The UK faces the prospect of a battery “gigafactory gap” that will undermine the electric car industry unless the government offers the growing sector more help, MPs on parliament’s business committee have said.

They said the UK had a “limited window in the next three years to attract further investment into this sector” or else face the prospect of a gradual decline in the car industry and the eventual loss of hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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