The aid will incentivise the production of relevant technologies for the transition towards a net zero economy

Its technology will be used to help generate solar power in Portugal

The carmaker will pay to use CATL’s techniques of making lithium-ion phosphate batteries, which it claims will make its EVs cheaper to produce

The funding will be shared between 17 selected projects

Up to 3m homes will be provided with electricity stored at the site

The 200MW facility will store both wind and solar power

It has developed a way to give old Tesla batteries new life by turning them into smart energy storage units

That’s according to Ford’s boss who says the company is being ‘totally reinvented’

Companies are looking to build batteries using sodium and sulphur instead of lithium, cobalt and nickel

The Middlesbrough facility will put the UK on the map when it comes to processing the metal critical to EVs, phones and wind farms