Battery Technology training launch at UKBIC, Baginton
The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC), based in Baginton, is the UK’s £200m national battery scale-up facility.
Mary Creagh MP delivered a keynote speech to launch a brand new qualification in Battery Manufacturing. It has been developed with vocational training experts EAL and will launch in September. Thousands of students across the UK and abroad are expected to take this qualification to develop their skills.
By 2040, gigafactories, electric vehicles (EV) and the rapidly expanding supply chain will require nearly half a million skilled workers for expanding sectors, there will be tens of thousands of skilled, well paid jobs in battery technology created in the coming years - estimated to be half a million by 2040.
Mary reflected on Coventry’s history at the cutting edge of manufacturing - in transport from bikes and motorcycles, to cars and jet engines. Battery technology is at the leading edge of the technological revolution of the twenty-first century. The Innovative work from UKBIC should ensure Coventry and the wider region remain at the heart of British manufacturing in the future.