‘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’Human beings and batteries are a bad mix: water and dust can cause disastrous short circuits in the cells that power electric cars, risking blazing fires. So the few people allowed into the vast clean rooms at Envision AESC’s factory in Sunderland must don a full body suit and go through an air shower first. Even the Guardian’s notebook is switched for pape