West Midlands Lithium Car Battery Plant Coventry Council has been approved to build a lithium car battery plant in the West Midlands at Coventry Airport. It will cost £2.5bn and start producing in 2025. It is 530,000 square metres and powered by renewable energy for example wind and solar. It will produce new batteries and recycle used ones. HS2 Roman Figure Found During Excavations HS2 roman figure A Roman figure in the shape of a human datin...

Electric Vehicle Chargepoints as British as Phone Boxes? Currently the UK has only 1 chargepoint for every 27.2 vehicles – the worst of 12 countries & even 2 US states. The new design unveiled on transport day at COP26 was created by the Royal College of Art prioritises ‘inclusivity and ease of use’ and was also created to raise awareness & generate excitement around electric vehicles. The Government has committed to phase out fossil fuels by 2...

Construction site broadband: what are the options? Fixed line – ADSL – leadtime weeks, speed slow (<10Mbit), cost low but getting more difficult to procure as we approach the switching off of the copper network in 2026. Fixed line – FTTC – leadtime weeks / months. Not universally available. Speed slow (10s of Mbits). Cost low. Fixed line – FTTP / Leased Line – leadtime months. Speed fast (100Mbit – 10GBit) / SLA possible Cost high particularly if exc

Addressing connectivity in the town of the future Whitehill and Bordon Regeneration Company (WBRC) deployed a private 4G Long Term Evolution (LTE) mobile network in its development of the new town centre which delivers reliable and secure connectivity providing groundbreaking uplink and download internet speeds. To deliver on its ‘digital’ vision WBRC invested in its own dedicated private fixed and wireless networks. WBRC’s vision was a hybrid network wit...