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Something very odd about this setup. Lots of marketing and PR - not a lot of construction or engineering.

I'm sure the full story will emerge in time.

Looks like a bunch of grifters paying themselves big piles of money and delivering very little.

Edit: And there it is ... shocker

Britishvolt was founded by Lars Carlstrom, a Swedish automotive executive, and Orral Nadjari, a financier with connections in the Middle East. The former quit two years ago after revelations that he was a convicted tax fraudster. The latter quit this summer amid speculation that he was not up to the job of leading the business into commercialisation.

You can tell straight away it's a grift from the fact they went thru the trouble of creating a computer graphic of how their factory would look like. I mean, who cares what the factory looks like?

You have to spend $2.4bn on something, might as well be fancy graphics, because it obviously wasnt a battery factory.

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