Currently reading: WAE will create electric car batteries at new £20m Oxford factory

Site opened today, will create 300 jobs and predominantly supply the heavy plant sector

Battery packs for passenger EVs will be built at WAE Technologies’ new Oxfordshire battery factory, its billionaire owner Andrew Forrest confirmed to Autocar at its opening ceremony today.

The £20 million Kidlington site, which employs 300 people, will initially be used to create, develop and test technologies for WAE’s motorsport series – Formula E, Extreme E and, from 2025, Extreme H – as well as parent company Fortescue Metals’ mining fleet.

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Ruaraidh 18 January 2023

The question is whether the new WAE Kidlington plant will be a battery factory or a *cell* factory (which Britishvolt was intended to be) or both.  More precision is needed in these stories please Autocar.