Car makers boost electric vehicle investments

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There's been a flurry of announcements of investment in the manufacture of electric cars. Toyota will spend $3.5bn to build car batteries in the United States, while Europe's Stellantis has done a deal with LG to produce battery cells for North America. Meanwhile Ford is investing $300m to convert a plant in the UK to make electric car components, as the firm's Europe president, Stuart Rowley, explains. And we get wider context on the market for electric vehicles from Professor Jillian Anable, who is an expert in transport and energy at the University of Leeds in the UK. Also in the programme, BBC disinformation and social media reporter Marianna Spring talks us through her research for BBC Panorama into how social media sites can amplify hatred against women. Plus, the BBC's Vivienne Nunis meets some of the business leaders and scientists coming up with new ways to cut carbon emissions in some of the world's dirtiest industries. (Picture: A worker at Ford's Halewood plant. Picture credit: Ford Europe.)