Rolls-Royce preps £300m car factory extension to gear up for electric future

Michael Holder
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Luxury carmaker to extend Goodwood car factory in West Sussex as part of preparations for transition to become an all-electric carmaker

Rolls-Royce Motor Cars is to invest more than £300m in expanding its Goodwood car manufacturing plant in West Sussex, in part to help prepare the facility to make battery electric vehicles (EVs), the company...

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