UK Battery Industrialisation Centre Ltd

Demand for Lithium Ion Battery (LIB) is growing exponentially (6-fold increase expected in the next 5 years) due to shift in electric vehicle (EV) and energy storage solutions (ESS) markets. However, scaling up battery cell production is extremely difficult, time-intensive, and wasteful (with manufacturing scrap as high as 30% are typically encountered in...

The global battery market is forecast to grow by 20% PA to 2030, reaching $360bn, requiring 1.3TWh of annual manufacturing capacity. Rapid ramp-up of manufacturing capacity will be driven by higher-capacity cells, higher-throughput equipment and opening new factories. Installation of gigafactories within Europe and the US is expected to accelerate over th...

Ilika Technologies, UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC) and MPAC are partnering in project SiSTEM funded by the Automotive Transformation Fund. SiSTEM intends to accelerate the scale-up of Ilika's solid state battery (SSB) technology. The project will include physical trials using UKBIC's high-volume roll-to-roll coating equipment with Ilika's sel...

The emerging UK Battery Factories will need to compete for productivity with Global EV GigaFactories and to compete there is a key consideration for increasing the yield and getting to steady state quickly. The UK Battery Industrialisation Centre with Waygate Technologies and PXL-ICE believe that a digital twin of UKBIC linked to the physical manufacturin...

The Power-Up project will establish the feasibility of manufacturing AMTE's Ultra Power (UP) cells in the UK, in volume. The UP cell has high energy density for a power cell, with excellent heat rejection capability using tab cooling, preventing cell overheating during continuous aggressive cycling or fast charging, and extending lifetime, in an automotiv...

Lithium-ion batteries are powering an increasing number of cars, buses, and large energy storage systems. Electrification has a positive impact on air quality and carbon emissions during the life of the battery. However, an efficient recycling industry is still needed to improve the economics of EV production and as a long term enabler to a circular econo...