Majority of Britishvolt's staff made redundant after company enters administration

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Hundreds have lost their jobs after British electric car battery company Britishvolt fell into administration

After once having ambitions to place the UK at the"helm of a global green industrial revolution", the company previously told Sky News that workers were having to take voluntary pay cuts while it waited for crucial government funding.Why you can trust Sky News

The majority of Britishvolt's 232 staff have been made redundant, administrators said, after the group made an application for administration to the courts on Tuesday. The move will have implications for Britain's vehicle manufacturers, which experts say need battery factories to stop much of the country's car production from shifting to mainland Europe.

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So that’ll be england then.

If we think this is a scam, who knows few years down the line we might learn that the whole EV thing, demonisation of ⛽️ cars was a scam? Everyone jumps on the band wagon in the name of environment but what about the financial cost and environment cost of replacing/ discarding 🚗

It’s fine no one wants to buy electric anyway

Another bonus of Brexit.

Electric cars are not the future, The mining is just as bad as oil drilling, plus there is only around 70 years of lithium and cobalt left to mine

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