{"id":205072,"date":"2023-08-09T15:48:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T13:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/?p=205072"},"modified":"2025-02-12T11:57:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T10:57:05","slug":"acuerdo-deshecho-britishvolt-puede-no-salvarse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2023\/08\/09\/deal-undone-britishvolt-may-not-be-saved\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfAcuerdo deshecho? Britishvolt puede no salvarse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El rescate de la start-up de bater\u00edas Britishvolt y sus planes para una de las dos \u00fanicas f\u00e1bricas de pilas del Reino Unido est\u00e1 en peligro. El comprador, la australiana Recharge Industries, no ha efectuado el pago final, informa la BBC citando a los administradores.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mientras que informes anteriores consideraban la compra como un hecho, el informe arroja dudas sobre la venta. El <em>BBC<\/em> cita documentos de la empresa de contabilidad EY, que muestran que Recharge Industries no ha efectuado hasta ahora el \u00faltimo plazo del pago total de 8,57 millones de libras, que venc\u00eda el 5 de abril de 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Recharge Industries niega estar en mora. Sin embargo, un portavoz dijo al <em>BBC<\/em> que el calendario del pago del \u00faltimo plazo depender\u00eda de una \"l\u00ednea de financiaci\u00f3n, que cuando se cierre cubrir\u00e1 tambi\u00e9n el coste de la adquisici\u00f3n del terreno\" y proporcionar\u00e1 liquidez adicional para el proyecto.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00f1adi\u00f3 que espera cerrar el acuerdo en agosto.<\/p>\n<p>Britishvolt hab\u00eda planeado construir una f\u00e1brica de bater\u00edas para autom\u00f3viles de 4.000 millones de libras en el noreste de Inglaterra, pero entr\u00f3 en concurso de acreedores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/2023\/01\/18\/britishvolt-se-declara-en-quiebra\/\">en enero<\/a> despu\u00e9s de quedarse sin dinero.<\/p>\n<p>El proyecto estaba cargado de promesas y se consideraba un salvavidas para la industria brit\u00e1nica, que sigue necesitando urgentemente una conexi\u00f3n con las cadenas de suministro. S\u00f3lo la empresa china Envision AESC quiere establecer capacidad de fabricaci\u00f3n de c\u00e9lulas en Gran Breta\u00f1a. La empresa construir\u00e1 una gran f\u00e1brica de bater\u00edas junto a la planta de Nissan en Sunderland para suministrar bater\u00edas a Nissan y a otros fabricantes de autom\u00f3viles como JLR. La empresa matriz de esta \u00faltima, el grupo indio Tata, anunci\u00f3 recientemente que estaba considerando construir una f\u00e1brica europea de bater\u00edas, lo que tendr\u00eda sentido dadas las plantas de JLR, especialmente en Inglaterra.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El rescate de la empresa emergente de bater\u00edas Britishvolt y sus planes para una de las dos \u00fanicas f\u00e1bricas de celdas del Reino Unido est\u00e1 en peligro. El comprador, la australiana Recharge<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":156740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9927],"tags":[10230,13682,10914,20642,1742,10196,27269,28690,7405,13946,2158],"class_list":["post-205072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-battery-fuel-cell","tag-batteries","tag-battery-cells","tag-battery-production","tag-britishvolt","tag-england","tag-northumberland","tag-recharge-industries","tag-scale-facilitation","tag-startup","tag-suppliers","tag-uk"],"acf":{"inhalt_teil2":"<p>As for Britishvolt and the deal with Recharge Industries, doubts remain even if the final instalment will be paid. The <em>BBC<\/em> reports the Australian offices of US investor group Scale Facilitation, which owns Recharge Industries, were raided in June for alleged tax fraud. Sources close to owner David Collard said that the raid was due to a misunderstanding between US and Australian tax returns and that all parties had cooperated.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the raid cast further doubt over the final payment for the Northumberland site, which had been extended long beyond the original deadline of 31 March.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The sale to the buyer had not completed as the final amount of deferred consideration was due to be paid on 5 April 2023,&#8221; says the report from EY to creditors seen by the <em>BBC<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It added: &#8220;As noted in the proposals, the buyer purchased the company&#8217;s business and assets for \u00a38.57m. This amount was payable in several instalments. The final instalment remains unpaid and overdue. As a result, the buyer is in default of the business sale agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, like Britishvolt, Recharge Industries is a start-up with little battery manufacturing experience. Its plan for the British site is to initially produce energy storage technology rather than batteries for electric vehicles.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-66432641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229799,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205072\/revisions\/229799"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}