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<p>Improving the range of electric vehicles is primarily a matter for vehicle manufacturers,
and this is something that is continuously being improved. Government will continue
to support industry in doing this, we have committed £274m from the Industrial Strategy
Challenge Fund to the Faraday Battery Challenge to advance electric vehicle battery
technology. This funding is supporting battery R&D from the Faraday Institution’s
academic research, through Innovate UK’s programme of collaborative applied R&D,
to scale-up in the cutting-edge UK Battery Industrialisation Centre. The aims of the
Faraday Battery Challenge include improving the energy density of batteries, improving
our understanding of temperature effects on range, and reducing battery costs which
will make longer range electric vehicles more affordable.</p><p> </p>
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