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UK consortium enters race to build solid-state batteries for electric cars

While some prototypes exist, firms have struggled to commercialise a durable solid-state battery

Some of Britain’s leading battery researchers have teamed up to develop prototype solid-state batteries, in the hope that the UK can take a leading role in the next stage of the electric car industry.

The FTSE 100 chemicals company Johnson Matthey, the Glencore-backed battery startup Britishvolt, and Oxford University are among the seven institutions that have signed a memorandum of understanding promising to work together on the technology.

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Originally posted in the guardian.