, the Amazon-backed electric truck maker, was also previously being wooed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to build a gigafactory at the Gravity site, the report added.
A spokesman for JLR told Autocar: “With our strategy for every single Jaguar Land Rover model available as a full BEV by the end of the decade, we will retain our plant and assembly facilities in the home UK market and around the world, as cited in the Reimagine strategy. "We continue to explore all options around the supply of batteries. No decisions have been made yet."
A final decision from JLR is expected at the end of June, as the firm progresses with plans to launch electric versions of the new Range Rover and Range Rover Sport in 2024 and reinvent Jaguar as an all-electric luxury brand the following year. about producing power sources for its Land Rover and Range Rover models, which sparked rumours of a UK site.Envision, which supplies batteries to Nissan, is already planning a new £450 million battery plant for the Japanese car maker in Sunderland.