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.
The latter, currently in the prototype phase, includes making 1.4MW
