Labour Party pledges £2bn for gigafactories

Labour plan to back electric vehicle manufacturing if they win the next General Election with an investment of £2 billion to part-finance the creation of eight new additional gigafactories in the West Midlands, the North East, the North West, and the South West.

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Britishvolt selects low-carbon battery mixing technology for use in Gigaplant

Britishvolt, which is building its first full-scale Gigaplant in the United Kingdom, has selected Bühlers’s proven mixing technology for battery slurry preparation – with the technology set to achieve significant waste reduction and energy savings.

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Sprint Power to help develop ultra-fast charging systems

Sprint Power is leading on a new £9.7 million UK government-backed project aimed at developing ultra-fast charging cells and battery packs for battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles (FCHEVs).

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Innovate UK announces £25 million EV competition

Innovate UK, part of UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), has announced a new funding competition that will support the research and development of the most promising, innovative and sustainable battery technologies for the propulsion of EVs in the automotive sector.

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UK risks missing window to become global player in EV battery revolution

A report from the Green Finance Institute’s Coalition for the Decarbonisation of Road Transport (CDRT) has found that the UK can become a global player in electric vehicle (EV) batteries if billions of pounds are invested now to build a battery supply chain.

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