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Hello and welcome back to The Fast Charge, a British EV newsletter.

In today’s edition… North Sea oil being used in EV batteries, a win at the car park, and all the auto Super Bowl adverts.

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In the last week…

COKED UP: Ed Conway, the Economics Editor at Sky News, has pulled together a truly fascinating report looking at EV capability in the UK. Not from the point of view of cars, but all about the material production (from getting lithium out the ground to building enough gigfactory capacity). Using data from the Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, which is also coincidentally being used by BEIS for their estimates, he revealed that as a country we could fall very short on our production ability for batteries. The impact of which is that we may lose out on car production to other countries where it makes sense for manufacturers. HOWEVER, the truly insightful part of Ed’s write-up is that he spotlights Humb…