{"id":17670,"date":"2026-04-11T08:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=ac6f29e5507ca6e15ccfcf921710a6a8"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:32:09","slug":"uk-startup-altilium-bags-18-5m-to-build-britains-first-commercial-ev-battery-refinery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=17670","title":{"rendered":"UK startup Altilium bags \u00a318.5m to build Britain\u2019s first commercial EV battery refinery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn0.tnwcdn.com\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/1\/files\/2026\/04\/altilium-drive35-ev-battery-recycling-plymouth.png\" width=\"868\" height=\"488\"><\/p>\n<p>In short:\u00a0Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured \u00a318.5 million in grant funding from the government\u2019s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country\u2019s first commercial refinery for recovering critical minerals from end-of-life electric vehicle batteries. Located in Plymouth, Devon, the facility will process 24,000 EV batteries a year using Altilium\u2019s proprietary EcoCathode\u2122 process, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/1417451-altilium-drive35-ev-battery-recycling-plymouth?utm_source=social&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=profeed\">This story continues<\/a> at The Next Web <a href=\"https:\/\/thenextweb.com\/news\/1417451-altilium-drive35-ev-battery-recycling-plymouth\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In short:\u00a0Altilium, a UK clean technology company, has secured \u00a318.5 million in grant funding from the government\u2019s DRIVE35 Scale-Up Fund to build ACT3, the country\u2019s first commercial refinery for recovering critical minerals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}