{"id":423809,"date":"2021-07-02T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423809"},"modified":"2021-07-02T12:40:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:10:00","slug":"nissan-to-make-new-electric-cars-batteries-in-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/nissan-to-make-new-electric-cars-batteries-in-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"Nissan to make new electric cars, batteries in Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese carmaker Nissan and its partners plan to invest 1 billion ($1.4 billion) pounds to expand production of electric vehicles and batteries in northeast England, a major victory for the U.K. government&#8217;s efforts to attract jobs and investment following the country&#8217;s departure from the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Nissan said Thursday it will build a new all-electric crossover sport utility vehicle at the company&#8217;s plant in Sunderland, creating more than 6,200 jobs at the factory and its suppliers. As part of the project, Envision AESC will build the U.K.&#8217;s first &#8220;gigafactory&#8221; to supply next generation batteries for the cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese carmaker Nissan and its partners plan to invest 1 billion ($1.4 billion) pounds to expand production of electric vehicles and batteries in northeast England, a major victory for the U.K. government&#8217;s efforts to attract jobs and investment following the country&#8217;s departure from the European Union. Nissan said Thursday it will build a new all-electric crossover sport utility vehicle at the company&#8217;s plant in Sunderland, creating more than 6,200 jobs at the factory and its suppliers. As part of the project, Envision AESC will build the U.K.&#8217;s first &#8220;gigafactory&#8221; to supply next generation batteries for the cars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,239,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-423809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}