Would-be UK battery maker, Britishvolt has barely completed one round of £1.7 billion of funding, and it has announced what it calls an anchor investor in the form of Swiss-UK mining and minerals monster Glencore, one of Europe’s largest companies. This is the third deal it has done with Glencore, this time for a £40 million slice of its series C, £200 million, funding round. This comes a week or so after the two partnered on the recycling of lithium ion batteries. The UK has no major lithium ion cycling business as yet, and it allowed Glencore to rejuvenate an ailing subsidiary in the UK. Britishvolt has been instrumental in ensuring the UK had some presence in the lithium ion…