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Car battery firm scraps plan to build UK’s first gigafactory in Wales

Britishvolt abandons Vale of Glamorgan plans in favour of coastal site in Northumberland

Efforts to build up Wales’s automotive industry have received another blow, after a company seeking to build Britain’s first large electric car battery plant abandoned south Wales in favour of a new location in northern England.

Britishvolt, a startup, said it had acquired exclusive rights to a coastal site in Blyth, Northumberland, because its previously announced preference of the Bro Tathan site in the Vale of Glamorgan, would not be ready to start construction in the summer of 2021.

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