Project from Oxfordshire-based battery developer AMTE Power one of three to share £1 million of funding
A project from Oxfordshire-based AMTE Power has been named as one of three projects from UK small and medium sized enterprise (SME) battery developers, which will share around £1 million of funding.
The funds were awarded via the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) funded Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC) - a £541 million investment programme which supports technology development and manufacturing scale-up capability for batteries in the UK.
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The three project winners were AMTE Power, Addionics and Nyobolt and were announced at the Battery Cells and Systems Expo, at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC) in Birmingham.
Claire Spooner, challenge deputy director for the FBC, speaking in Birmingham, said: "The UK is home to some of the most innovative battery technology companies in the world.
"For the UK to prosper from the transition to electrification, it is important that we not only develop the most advanced and highest performing batteries but that we also scale these technologies in the UK."
She added: "Utilising the world-class battery manufacturing facilities at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre will enable them to de-risk the manufacturing process of their innovations at giga-scale and prove technology performance to their customers and investors."
AMTE’s Power Cell Commercialisation (PCC) project will support their production yield improvement for the scale-up of the company's ultra high power (UHP) pouch cell in the UK.
The UHP cell is a potentially market leading lithium nickel-cobalt-aluminum oxide (NCA) chemistry pouch cell, capable of up to 40C continuous discharge and 100C pulsed discharge, at an energy density of 150 Watt-hours per kilogram.
The project will also help to further develop and secure material and manufacturing supply chains for battery technologies in the UK.
Meanwhile, the Addionics project uses technology developed by Addionics for 3D current collector fabrication that has shown significant battery performance improvements.
Elsewhere, Nyobolt is commercialising ultra-fast charging, high power battery technologies for applications ranging from power tools to automotive and is currently scaling production to meet customer demand.
Its project will optimise the giga-scale manufacturing at the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) of Nyobolt’s electrode material.
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