Shock therapy: turmoil engulfs Britishvolt’s £3.8bn battery factory

Future of company hailed by Boris Johnson as key to green industrial revolution hangs in the balance, as the first in our Electric Dreams series on Britain's fledgling battery industry reveals

Champagne flowed freely as Orral Nadjari courted bankers and potential business partners in a private box, against a soundtrack of V12 supercar engines, at the Goodwood festival of Speed.

Nadjari had hit the big time: his Britishvolt battery startup was gatecrashing the annual petrolheads' gathering at the historic West Sussex circuit in June with plans to power cars of the future using British-made batteries.