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	answer has question	xlqo2wDk
	answer has answering person	Grant Shapps
	answer text	<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>
	answer given date	2020-02-17
	answer has answering body	Department for Transport
	written answer has answering body	Department for Transport
Department for Transport	answering body has written answer	KxmIISHt
Department for Transport	answering body has answer	KxmIISHt
xlqo2wDk	question has answer	KxmIISHt
Grant Shapps	answering person has answer	KxmIISHt