Our expertise in transport and energy covers:

• Improving cost and performance of powertrains
• Reducing time to develop new products and systems architectures
• Testing and validating new technologies
• Providing capability to scale up and manufacture effectively
• Measuring and improving quality, performance and safety

We’re passionate about sharing our knowledge, and wherever possible we transfer our technology and expertise from automotive to other sectors including aerospace, rail, static energy storage applications.

Collaboration is key to innovate in industry and we have many critical partnerships.

We are the Advanced Propulsion Centre spoke for Electrical Energy Storage, one of the founders of the UK Government’s Faraday Battery Challenge and a founding member of the Faraday Institution – a £246 million commitment to battery technology development. Together with Coventry City Council and the Coventry and Warwickshire LEP, we were awarded £80 million to establish the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre.

Our education course(s) in this emerging sector:

• MSc in Sustainable Automotive Engineering 

We have research capabilities in :

• Battery Scale-up

• Battery Systems Engineering

• Cell Engineering

• Electrochemical Materials

• Modelling and Control Systems

• Power Electronics, Machines and Drives

• Vehicle Propulsion Systems

Resources:

E4 Tech Report: The UK chemicals and process supply chain for battery manufacture

How to safely deconstruct a battery