New development centre aims to supercharge UK battery development

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A West Midlands partnership has been awarded £80m to establish a new National Battery Manufacturing Development Facility that will develop products for vehicles and transportation.

The new national facility — to be established in the Coventry and Warwickshire area by Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), the Coventry and Warwickshire Local Enterprise Partnership and Coventry City Council — will be open to UK companies and researchers wanting to develop manufacturing technologies for batteries and their components. In doing so, it is expected to provide a new strategic link between the research, development and full-scale industrialisation for battery technologies across Britain.

The new facility will also host a learning facility to train the future skills base in all elements of battery manufacturing, which will include the next generation of battery systems across battery chemistry, electrodes, cell design, module and pack levels.

WMG has spent 15 years working with industry to develop and prove new battery technologies. More recently they have been working through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) Spoke, the National Battery Scale-Up facility and the Energy Research Accelerator. Research projects already underway are investigating new battery technologies, how to scale up battery manufacturing, and the reuse and recycling of batteries.

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