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Guardian Business examines the UK’s efforts to save its car industry by building an automotive battery industry

  • Workers at Envision’s car battery ‘gigafactory’ in Sunderland in the north-east of England

    ‘UK could miss out’: is government doing enough for car battery industry?

    In part three of our series on the UK’s battery ambitions, we look at its attempts to encourage ‘gigafactories’
  • Geologist James Pearson holds a rock at Trelavour quarry near St Austell, Cornwall.

    ‘The part of Cornwall nobody ever sees’: the hi-tech future for lithium and tin mining

    In the second part of our Electric dreams series looking at the UK’s automotive battery industry, we visit an area whose industrial past is being revitalised
  • Artist’s impression of the £2.6bn electric vehicle battery 'gigaplant' planned for construction in Blyth, Northumberland.

    Shock therapy: turmoil engulfs Britishvolt’s £3.8bn battery factory

    Future of company hailed by Boris Johnson as key to green industrial revolution hangs in the balance, as the first in our Electric dreams series on Britain’s fledgling battery industry reveals
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