Japanese carmaker Nissan is in "advanced" talks with the government over a new electric car battery factory in northeast England, the Financial Times reported Wednesday. The discussions are part of a post-Brexit plan to make Sunderland the group's largest high-volume electric vehicle site outside Japan, according to the business paper. Meanwhile, a Nissan spokesman told AFP that it had no plans to announce immediately, saying only that Sunderland had "a pioneering role in developing the electric vehicle market". The carmaker established Britain's first electric vehicle and battery production at Sunderland in 2013 with its Leaf car. But Nissan committed in January to its future after Johnson finally clinched a Brexit trade deal with the bloc.

Source: News 24 May 26, 2021 17:37 UTC