Blyth Gigaplant



Slim999 said:
It's good news for NE - bad news for Wales following in from the ineos/ Ratcliffe decision to build inn France

It's a start up in competition with the big boys..... so excitement needs to be muted until it actually happens.

But good news for NE and (potentially) 1 reason to argue that Nissan may want to continue here
....( to counter the big arguments gathering on the other side of that see saw)

We need battery manufacturing in UK to cement any hope of a future automotive industry post 2030 when all new designs will be electric
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Whatever type of batteries this plant is intending build it will need to be more than just car batteries for the UK automotive industry if it is going create 3000 - 8000 jobs.The report quoting the CEO says the plant is crucial for UK automotive industry.I would think the UK automotive industry has other bigger issues to deal with at the moment.
 
ir35 said:
Seems strange, what with the impending demise of the UK car industry as foretold on here.
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Maybe this will save nissan?

If cars have to all be electric and you have the gigaplant up the road which creates the required lithium batteries.
 
BigPeter said:
Maybe this will save nissan?

If cars have to all be electric and you have the gigaplant up the road which creates the required lithium batteries.
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This plant - if it happens - won't be churning out any product for 3 years possibly more .

It's a start up company- we we need to be wary .

It's not like NEC or Tesla are saying they will create 5000 jobs .

.....Reasons for optimism for poor Nissan workers however.

Battery manufacture is critical to forward looking economies- not just for cars but grid / network storage - and domestic ' behind meter ' storage in futute.

To get to carbon neutrality by 2050 we will need several modes of electricity storage of which lithium batteries are one.

These types of technologies represent the manufacturing jobs of the future.

For those dreaming of new shipbuilding - forget it and switch on to high tech energy / grid / smart devices and electric transport
 
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Slim999 said:
For those dreaming of new shipbuilding - forget it and switch on to high tech energy / grid / smart devices and electric transport
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Offshore supply vessels maintenance and general supply and manufacture of wind turbines is the area the Pallion shipyard scheme and other ports in general are targeting. Obviously the wind turbines are used to power the battery factories and to charge the produced batteries, almost at 0% CO2 emissions. the NE will be the winner if we set up a world leading infrastructure in the NE.
 
 

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