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Jaguar Land Rover is planning to create 10,000 UK jobs and build electric cars in the Midlands, spurred by a promise from the government that battery development and electric vehicles will be key to its industrial strategy.
According to a report by the Financial Times, Ralf Speth, chief executive of JLR, said the company was aiming to double its international workforce as part of its target to increase production from 500,000 cars annually to 1m a year by 2020. “If we double the cars we can double the workforce,” he told a meeting of political and automotive leaders from the Midlands on Thursday evening.