BREAKING: Battery start-up Britishvolt has filed to appoint administrators after failing to secure a buyer. The majority of Britishvolt's approximate 300 staff have been made redundant, administrators EY confirmed. 📺 Sky 501,Freeview 233 and YouTube
"We are investing record sums in R and D including the recent announcement of £211m into the Faraday battery challenge."
"There were clear milestones we expect anybody who's received public money to hit and we are looking at the situation very carefully to make sure they are."Britishvolt chief executive Graham Hoare told Sky News in November that staff agreed to aThe £3.8bn gigafactory project, in the Port of Blyth, Northumberland, was backed by £1.7bn of private funding.
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