Thread: Britain outside the EU
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Old 24-05-2023, 23:57   #5124
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Re: Britain outside the EU
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Originally Posted by Chris View Post
No more pyrrhic than counting 'planned' factories in the EU figure while dismissing the UK's 3rd potential plant as 'barely on the drawing board'.

Around two thirds of total Lithium Ion battery production planned in the entire EU and UK is at material risk of cancellation, or at least significant scaling down, because of a brewing subsidy war with the USA.

https://www.transportenvironment.org...risk-analysis/

The BBC article is wise to caution counting the Northumberland site proposed by Britishvolt as a UK site, but is very much counting chickens that have not hatched (and may never do so) by attributing 35 to the EU.

My point is, you can make statistics say pretty much whatever you want, and someone on the BBC newsdesk this afternoon appears to be doing so.
Great news that the plant is coming here. Credit to the government for helping make it happen.

I believe France and Germany are leading Europe in battery factories. I read a great article on it but can't put my finger on it. They've got their cheque books out quite a bit to get investment.
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