LORD COPPER: Driving home the advantage for metals from electric vehicles

Imagine you’re back in 1895... outside your window, a few clanking, smoking, strange-looking carriages pass by, mixed with what you’ve seen all your life – carriages, carts and wagons pulled by horses.

They’ll never catch on, will they? After all, you have to put some highly inflammable liquid in them, which is then made to explode in that heavy metal bit in...