The Department will work with the Department of Business Energy and Industrial Strategy in supporting the growth of a domestic battery industry. The Government is investing £318 million from the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund in the Faraday Battery Challenge, to put the UK at the global forefront of the design, development, manufacturing, and recycling of electric batteries. The Faraday Battery Challenge is creating the research, innovation and commercialisation pathways, and ecosystem that is establishing the UK as a battery science superpower, growing innovative companies and attracting large scale battery manufacturing to the UK. The challenge is split into three elements: • support for the Faraday Institution, which is bringing together expertise from universities and industry as it endeavours to make the UK the go-to place for the research and development of new electrical storage technologies for both the automotive and wider relevant sectors; • funding for feasibility studies and collaborative research and development projects; • and investment in the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, a unique open access facility to accelerate the development of cost-effective, high-performance, durable, safe, low-weight and recyclable batteries.