Businesses can apply for a share of up to £10 million
to support development of innovative battery technologies for
electric vehicles.
There is a growing global demand for new and more efficient
batteries to support the switch to electric transport. This
demand is driven by plans by the UK and other governments to ban
the sale of conventional petrol and diesel vehicles within the
next two decades.
The battery supply chain could be worth £12 billion to the UK
economy by 2025 if the country can establish itself as a global
leader in battery technology.
The UK government’s Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund Faraday
Battery Challenge has up to £317 million to help businesses and
researchers to develop market-leading battery technologies.
Innovate UK, as part of UK Research and Innovation, has up to £10
million from the fund to invest in feasibility studies and in
research and development into promising and innovative battery
technologies.
Work could include battery cost, efficiency, and recycling
Projects can focus on a variety of improvements to battery
technologies for the propulsion of electric vehicles. They could
look at automotive applications or other sectors such as rail,
marine, aerospace, defence, or off-highway vehicles where
innovation could meet challenging performance requirements or
enable electrification.
Areas of work could include:
- cost reduction at the cell and pack level and in
manufacturing
- increasing energy density of battery cells
- increasing the power density of battery packs
- eliminating thermal runaway risks
- lengthening cell and pack life
- broadening the temperature ranges for efficient operation of
a pack
- new models to better predict range and battery health
- recyclability, including second life, design for end of life,
reuse, or recycling
- technologies enabling the efficient design, development, or
manufacture of batteries
- next-generation battery technologies
- the competition is open, and the deadline for applications is
at 11am on 9 December 2020
- projects can be led by a business of any size working with
other businesses or researchers
- projects could range in size between £100,000 and £1 million
and last between 3 and 12 months
- the competition is open, and the deadline for applications is
at 11am on 9 December 2020
- projects can be led by a business of any size working with
other businesses or researchers
- projects could range in size between £300,000 and £1.5
million and last between 3 and 12 months
