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Some 25 per cent of the UK’s needs could be met from British supplies, according to BMI. But it is unlikely to ever be economically competitive with China’s state-sponsored supply chains, which the West has allowed to become dominant in recent decades. “National security always comes at a slight cost,” said Alexander Stafford MP, the co-chair of the APPG on critical metals. Cornish Lithium also promises to be more significantly more environmentally friendly than other mining methods, which have been linked to water and soil contamination, since it relies on existing pits and geotherma...

BBC News By Emma Woollacott image captionThe world will have to work out with millions of disused car batteries "The rate at which we're growing the industry is absolutely scary," says Paul Anderson from Birmingham University. He's talking about the market for electric cars in Europe. By 2030, the EU hopes, there will be 30 million electric cars on European roads. "It's something that's never really been done before at that rate of growth for a completely new product," says Dr Anderson, who is also the co-director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Critical Materials. While e...

What will happen to all the dead car batteries? © Getty Images The world will have to work out with millions of disused car batteries "The rate at which we're growing the industry is absolutely scary," says Paul Anderson from Birmingham University. He's talking about the market for electric cars in Europe. By 2030, the EU hopes, there will be 30 million electric cars on European roads. "It's something that's never really been done before at that rate of growth for a completely new product," says Dr Anderson, who is also the co-director of the Birmingham Centre for Strategic Elements and Cr...

Electric car targets at risk as UK falls behind in global race for key battery metals, experts warn UK lacks cohesive strategy and faces being at the 'back of the list' as US and Japan forge ahead with trade deals 1 April 2021 • 6:00am Employees working in the workshop of a lithium battery manufacturing company in Huaibei, eastern China's Anhui province. China dominates the market for the key metals needed to produce electric cars.  Credit: STR/AFP  Electric car targets are at risk of being missed because Britain is being left behind in the global race to buy components for batteries, a ...