Energy Engineering: Power for the future by Winster Craig

Author:Winster, Craig [Winster, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2020-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

facing the Battery Tech sector and how do you think they should be dealt with?

JP: There is still uncertainty about what direction the industry will take which makes investment decisions more difficult. There are many variations of battery cell formats being used by different OEMs, so the challenges of moving towards standardisation or using bespoke formats and chemistries as a differentiator will be a consideration for the future which will develop over time.

One of the aspects that UKBIC will help to address is the challenge of manufacturing new technologies in high volume whilst maintaining the standards of quality, performance and robustness required from the automotive industry. Operation in vehicles is a demanding environment for batteries and the quality of the manufacturing process is absolutely critical for ensuring that the resulting cells perform safely and as expected. Performance and quality of cells can be affected by a number of production issues such as crosscontamination of materials or managing process variation at high speeds. This is why it is important that companies have an opportunity to come and trial and validate their products and components at relevant speeds and scales in a place like UKBIC, before being required to commit to very costly investments in their own production facilities. If we can enable more technology developers to validate their products and processes at scale, there will be more opportunities to reduce the risk of onward

investment and increase commercial confidence.

DM: If you had a wish list to ensure the UK can keep at the forefront of battery technology what would be on it? JP: I look forward to launching

UKBIC in 2020 as it will be a very important asset for the UK to

enable opportunities for scale-up and commercialisation. We already have an excellent science and

technology base in the UK, which is working on the future generations of battery technologies that could bring about step changes in cost, safety, performance or lifecycle. It is more an expectation than a wish that, with the Faraday Battery Challenge work, we can provide much more opportunity for these technologies to develop all the way through to being volume manufactured in the not too distant future.

www.ukbic.co.uk

Fast track

Steve Welch spoke to Rob Millar Head of Electrical and Battery Systems at Williams Advanced Engineering about their story from racetrack to road, detailing how their technology has evolved during this journey and how they also maintain some aspects of the race approach, such as rapid prototyping

Rob Millar Head of Electrical and Battery Systems at Williams Advanced Engineering

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