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The Faraday Institution announced that it will award up to £55 million to five UK-based consortia (which includes Intellegens) to conduct application-inspired research to make step changes in battery chemistries, systems and manufacturing methods. The ultimate aim of the research is to facilitate improvements in batteries used for transport and other applications such as grid storage with improved performance and cost characteristics.
Research to focus on industry-defined goals to improve performance of electric vehicles
September 4th, 2019
The Faraday Institution today announced that it will award up to £55 million to five UK-based consortia (including Intellegens, Oxford University, University College London, University of Birmingham, among others) to conduct application-inspired research to make step changes in battery chemistries, systems and manufacturing methods. The ultimate aim of the research is to facilitate improvements in batteries used for transport and other applications such as grid storage with improved performance and cost characteristics.
The new projects in four focus areas join the existing Faraday Institution research projects that collectively aim to deliver the organisation’s mission to accelerate breakthroughs in energy storage technologies to benefit the UK in the global race to electrification. This expanded portfolio has the dual aims of improving current generation lithium ion batteries as well as longer horizon materials discovery and optimisation projects to support the commercialisation of next-generation batteries.