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  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Monaco shipping group takes stake in battery start-up Britishvolt

    Scorpio investment a sign of manufacturers looking beyond car industry into new markets

  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    Commodities
    Britishvolt teams up with Indonesia’s Bakrie family in nickel venture

    UK battery start-up building gigafactory in Northumberland moves to secure supply of key metal

  • Tuesday, 15 February, 2022
    Batteries
    Britishvolt wins further Glencore backing in latest funding round

    Miner and commodity trader to invest £40mn in UK battery start-up at a valuation of more than £774mn

  • Thursday, 3 February, 2022
    Electric vehicles
    Glencore plans UK recycling plant for lithium-ion batteries

    Waste from Britishvolt’s gigafactory in Blyth to be processed at Kent facility to tap rise of electric cars

  • Friday, 21 January, 2022
    Britishvolt secures £1.7bn funding for North East battery plant

    Tritax and abrdn investment backed by £100m government grant in bid to safeguard UK car plants

  • Tuesday, 26 October, 2021
    Britishvolt closes in on £200m in government funding for UK plant

    Blyth gigafactory project in advanced talks to secure support for its proposed electric car battery facility

  • Wednesday, 15 September, 2021
    Batteries
    Battery gigafactory group Britishvolt valued at more than $1bn

    Fundraising comes after start-up began to build plant for electric car batteries

  • Wednesday, 16 June, 2021
    News in-depthClimate Capital
    UK in talks with six companies over battery ‘gigafactories’ for electric cars

    Ford, LG and Samsung among groups examining production to supply electric vehicles

  • Friday, 11 December, 2020
    UK manufacturing
    UK’s first gigafactory to provide £2.6bn boost for ‘red wall’ town

    Battery production centre to create thousands of jobs and boost prospects of homegrown electric car industry

  • Friday, 17 July, 2020
    UK manufacturing
    Battery start-up selects Welsh site for UK’s first gigafactory

    Britishvolt aims to start construction at former RAF base near Cardiff early next year

  • Wednesday, 20 May, 2020
    Batteries
    Deal between battery start-ups brings UK’s first gigafactory closer

    AMTE Power and Britishvolt’s £4bn project could help secure survival of domestic carmakers

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