Nissan UK gigafactory could be announced this week in major commitment to UK

Nissan UK gigafactory could be announced this week in major commitment to UK

Japanese car giant Nissan could announce plans for a battery gigafactory in the UK as soon as this week, Sky News understands.

City editor Mark Kleinman said the carmaker's electric vehicle strategy, tipped to include production of its Qashqai and Juke models at Sunderland, was also expected to confirm the construction of a battery gigafactory.

There have been weeks of media speculation over the scale of the company's investment - one that would have been seen as impossible until this year when Nissan confirmed its backing for the UK's Brexit deal with the European Union.