After Musk's shot, the United Kingdom will build its own "super factory"

Tesla's head wanted to build a factory in Britain, but changed his mind after Brexit and chose Germany, and the company was embroiled in a lawsuit with environmentalists.

British company Britishvolt plans to start construction of Britain's first "gigafactory" – a factory for electric vehicle batteries – this year. The project has received around £2.5 billion in investment. This was reported by the Daily Express.

The UK has high hopes for the plant as it will allow the country to actively join the global electric vehicle market, according to experts. It is believed that the presence of its "gigafactory" will enable the UK to keep carmakers in the country as diesel and petrol cars are being phased out.

Britishvolt is expected to begin construction in April 2022 at the former coal yard site of a power plant in Northumberland, northern England. The company plans to build battery production "in the next few years" and predicts that by 2030, the gigafactory will produce about 300,000 cars of batteries.

Due to the importance of the project to the country, the UK government has committed £100 million to build the plant.

British Commerce Secretary Kwas Kuarten told reporters the plant would be a "huge lever" for Britain's development.

"It was a very important project – it immediately created 3,000 jobs and another 5,000 jobs in the supply chain... The reason you need to add a little bit (investment from national budgets – inf. inf. in) is that we're talking about global competition. All other countries are doing this, and this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Kuarteng said.

Speaking of competition, it is worth mentioning that the Uk has given way to Germany in the construction of such factories. Earlier, Elon Musk planned to build Europe's first Tesla "gigafactory" in the UK, but Brexit prevented those plans from materializing. Musk believes that after Foggy Albin leaves the European Union, it is too risky to build a factory there. So he built his own factory in Germany. The "Giga Berlin" (which Tesla calls the German factory) opened in the fall of 2021 but has not yet begun work due to a lawsuit with local environmentalists.