Greenpeace reaction to JLR electric car battery deal

Commenting on news reports that the UK is set to make a deal with Jaguar Land Rover to host a multi-billion-pound electric car battery plant in Somerset, Greenpeace UK’s policy director, Doug Parr, said:

“The UK car industry has just been given the jump start it desperately needed. Securing this gigafactory was a critical to ensuring the UK even has a car manufacturing sector going forward. But the thousands of jobs it will create demonstrates the huge advantages that come with investing in home-grown green tech.

“However, experts say that the UK needs ten battery plants by 2040 if we’re to remain a competitive player in the electric car industry. So the government needs to come up with a plan and the policies that deliver it, otherwise the UK battery manufacturing will run out of juice and the jobs will go elsewhere.”