• mannycalavera@feddit.uk
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    6 days ago

    It’s not huge, I don’t mean to suggest that. You’re totally right.

    I suppose my point is that for the industries of the future he may become a key player. These industries are relatively small now but you’d imagine they would grow over the next ten years.

    Storage. Again, her does not have a huge hold on that market.

    Maybe I’m misremembering but wasn’t there a huge giga / mega factory that Tesla was involved within the UK for battery storage?

    I do hope he has little to nothing to do with the UK over the next decade. But something tells me this turd isn’t going away 😕.

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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      6 days ago

      Giga factory did not happen in the UK.

      If I was a sceptic, I’d say the UK was one of a few nations he proposed to try and gain some economic influence.

      But few here generally believed he would choose a place with expensive labour like the US or UK to host such a thing. Honestly, factory manufacturing is not huge in the UK for good reason economically.

      We do have a good few smaller corps building batteries. But honestly, it’s mainly importing cells from China and putting things together. But nothing huge exists.