Aussie 救助（する） 企て，努力，提案 saves Britishvolt: 計画（する）s for 巨大（な） £3.8bn gigafactory 生き返らせるd in 取引，協定 支援するd by cricket legend Ian Botham

By Leah Montebello For The Daily Mail

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Britishvolt has been saved by an Australian start-up in a 取引，協定 支援するd by Ian Botham.

In a major 上げる to the UK’s electric 乗り物 (EV) ambitions, 行政官／管理者s at EY selected Recharge 産業s as the preferred 入札者 to buy the car 殴打／砲列 company, weeks after its demise.

The 取引，協定 ? supported by cricket legend Lord Botham in his 役割 as a UK-Australia 貿易（する） （外交）使節／代表 ? 生き返らせるs hopes that the £3.8billion gigafactory Britishvolt planned to build 近づく Blyth in Northumberland will go ahead.

Howzat? Cricket legend Lord Botham (pictured) has backed a deal for Australia's Recharge Industries to buy Britishvolt in his role as a UK-Australia trade envoy

Howzat? Cricket legend Lord Botham (pictured) has 支援するd a 取引，協定 for Australia's Recharge 産業s to buy Britishvolt in his 役割 as a UK-Australia 貿易（する） （外交）使節／代表

The factory is seen as 決定的な in supercharging Britain’s electric 乗り物 製造業の 能力s and 減ずるing 依存 on 構成要素s from 中国 and the EU.

But the 計画（する）s 苦しむd a 後退 last mon th when Britishvolt fell into 行政.

However, 産業 専門家s 警告するd that there was still no certainty the factory would go ahead given that Recharge is also a start-up and has yet to 建設する a major 事業／計画（する） of its own.

The Australian group ? which is 最終的に owned by New York-based 投資 会社／堅い 規模 Facilitation ? （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 a string of 競争相手s to land the 取引，協定.

Accountant EY, which is 監督するing the sale, said it received ‘多重の approaches’ and ‘非常に／多数の 申し込む／申し出s’ before 指名するing Recharge as the preferred 入札者.

Last month, the start-up was 公然と 支援するd by Botham, who said he was ‘proactively 補助装置ing’ the group with its 企て，努力，提案 through his 役割 as the 貿易（する） （外交）使節／代表.?

EY did not 明示する how much the 会社／堅い would be sold for, but any 取引，協定 will is likely to value Britishvolt at a fraction of its £774million valuation when it raised money in February last year.

Recharge 創立者 David Collard said: ‘We’re thrilled to be 進歩ing with our 提案するd 企て，努力，提案 for Britishvolt and can’t wait to get started making a reality o f our 計画（する）s to build the UK’s first gigafactory.?

Nissan's green 運動?

Nissan is snapping up a chunk of Renault’s electric car 商売／仕事.?

The Japanese car 巨大（な） will take a 火刑／賭ける of up to 15 per cent in Ampere, an arm of Renault planning to sell six electric models by 2030.?

The 投資 comes ahead of a planned 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）ing on the Paris 在庫／株 交流 for the spin-off in the second half of this year, with Renault keeping a 大多数 火刑／賭ける.?

The pair also 発表するd an 精密検査する of their 共同, which saw Renault 削減（する） its 火刑／賭ける in Nissan from 43 per cent to 15 per cent.?

Nissan will keep its 15 per cent 火刑／賭ける in Renault.?

After a 競争の激しい and rigorous 過程, we’re 確信して our 提案 will 配達する a strong 結果 for all 伴う／関わるd.’

The factory is 推定する／予想するd to create as many as 3,000 職業s in the area, which former （ドイツなどの）首相／（大学の）学長 Kwasi Kwarteng said was ‘正確に／まさに what levelling up looks like’.?

Simon Clarke, 保守的な MP for Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland, said Recharge’s winning 企て，努力，提案 was ‘welcome news’, 追加するing that ‘a 私的な partner has always been 必須の for Britishvolt’.

But Professor David Bailey at the University Of Birmingham 商売／仕事 School 警告するd that it was perhaps too 早期に to say if this was really a good match for the British start-up.

‘Whilst this 協定 is better than nothing, Recharge, like Britishvolt, is still 最終的に a start-up,’ he said.?

‘The 部門 would have been better off if it had been a bigger player, like Panasonic or [Chinese energy group] 想像する, who won the 企て，努力，提案.’

He said many of the 問題／発行するs behind Britishvolt’s 崩壊（する） are still lurking beneath the surface, 含むing 財政／金融ing the factory and finding 顧客s, with no （疑いを）晴らす 指示，表示する物 of how Recharge will manage either of these.

Andy Palmer, former boss of Aston ツバメ and いわゆる Godfather of EVs, 警告するd that more needed to be done to make Britishvolt a success.

‘The new owners now have to 証明する they have the 科学（工学）技術 and 製造業の 能力 to build an order 調書をとる／予約する, going 井戸／弁護士席 beyond the 業績／成就s of Britishvolt to date,’ he said.

He said 強健な incentives were needed in the UK ーするために compete with the EU.

Jonathan Reynolds, 労働 商売／仕事 広報担当者, said: ‘The 政府’s long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 失敗 on 産業の 戦略 means we’re losing the 全世界の race for electric 乗り物 殴打／砲列 製造業の.’

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