Nyobolt is commercialising ultra-fast charging, long-life, high-power battery technologies for applications ranging from industrial to on- and off-highway vehicles. These performance metrics can enable the use of smaller, longer-lasting batteries and more efficient EVs. Under POWER-UP, Nyobolt will study the feasibility of reshoring to the UK pack manufacturing for UK and EU customers.

Nyobolt Ltd is bringing an ultra-fast charging battery technology to the market, providing a solution to critical unmet needs in the automotive sector and beyond. Providing significant advantages over the current state-of-the-art, Nyobolt's battery technology can reduce vehicle charging from hours to minutes, with long cycle life and improved safety providing high user confidence. GRMP-UK focuses on the high volume production of Nyobolt's proprietary anode material. Establishing this capacity in the UK would represent a key piece of the UK's automotive battery supply chain.

Nyobolt is commercialising ultra-fast charging, high power battery technologies for applications ranging from power tools to automotive, and is currently scaling production to meet customer demand. In this project, Nyobolt will build on experience gained during previous activity at UKBIC to optimise for quality and speed the manufacturing at giga-scale of Nyobolt's electrode material.

Nyobolt's ultra-fast charging, high power density, and long cycle life battery technology provides a solution to unmet needs in consumer goods applications, the automotive sector, and beyond where an alternative to the high energy density batteries on offer today is required. In this project Nyobolt will work with NPL and the Royce Institute to develop bespoke measurement capabilities tailored to further optimise these fast charging lithium-ion battery materials. The knowledge obtained through this project will feed into Nyobolt's next generation product design.

Nyobolt is commercialising ultra-fast charging, long-life, high-power battery technologies for applications ranging from industrial to automotive and off highway. As well as providing customers with improved performance and operational benefits, Nyobolt's technology has environmental benefits enabled by paving the way for smaller, long lasting batteries and therefore reducing the resources required for manufacture. Recyclability of the batteries is also of key importance to minimise manufacturing waste and to recover key materials when the batteries do eventually reach end of life. The ReNEW project is focused on the direct recovery of Nyobolt's proprietary anode technology to further enhance the environmental sustainability of Nyobolt's fast-charging, long life battery technology.

Nyobolt is commercialising ultra-fast charging, high power battery technologies for applications ranging from power tools to automotive, and is currently scaling production to meet customer demand. In this project, Nyobolt will optimise for quality and speed the giga-scale manufacturing at UKBIC of Nyobolt's electrode material.

At Nyobolt, we are working on creating an ultra-fast charging lithium-ion battery that can be used in both electric vehicles and consumer goods applications, minimizing downtime by shortening the recharging period, and reframing customer's expectations about where and how we can use batteries. Developed at the University of Cambridge, Nyobolt's ultra-fast charging technology uses niobium tungsten oxides (NWO) as battery anode materials. Conventional lithium-ion materials typically contain graphite or lithium titanate (LTO) as anodes and suffer from both safety and performance issues, the latter due in part to their inherently slow lithium ion movement throughout the material. In contrast, NWOs enable lithium ions to move rapidly though their structures - with ion diffusion coefficients that are several orders of magnitude higher than those in e.g., LTO. This is the key to their ability to be used for a quicker charge and higher power in a battery. What's more, these high ion mobilities can be achieved without nanosizing. This has a significant impact on sustainability - we can avoid the complexity and cost of nanoparticles without compromising on the performance. Prof. Clare Grey and Dr Sai Shivareddy founded Nyobolt Limited in 2019 to bring this UK IP to market and offer a fast-charging solution to customers. In a battery cell, these anodes (which are themselves a composite material) will be paired with a typical cathode electrode and combined with a separator soaked in an electrolyte solution. The interaction of all these components and the resulting changes to the various surfaces present can have a significant impact on the performance of the battery during its operation. Small changes in the chemistry and cycling conditions can have a big influence on key performance indicators, such as lifetime, rate-performance, and capacity retention. These will also impact the overall safety of the cell. This project seeks to study these changes to the surface using techniques at the National Physical Laboratory which provide both sufficient sensitivity and complementary information (e.g. SIMS, Raman, XPS), which are not currently readily available in routine R&D work programs at Nyobolt. By understanding the surface, we can tailor solutions by changing the battery chemistry or electrochemical conditions during cycling to target improved performance, creating a better product to out-compete current state-of-the-art technology. A better fast-charging battery can enable the wider and faster adoption of electric vehicles in UK and electrification more generally and contribute to the UK's net-zero strategy.

Nyobolt, WAE Technologies, Coventry University and the University of Cambridge are collaborating to bring ultra-fast charging, high power battery technologies to high performance and long-lasting automotive applications. Nyobolt is commercialising an ultra-fast charging battery technology, providing significant advantages over current state-of-the-art. This project will optimise battery performance over an extended operating temperature range with enhanced cycle life, delivering improved performance and higher efficiency to advance the transition to zero emission vehicles. The collaboration brings together leading expertise in advanced automotive engineering and electrification (WAE), battery technology (Nyobolt), cell development and optimisation (Coventry) and advanced battery research (Cambridge).

ZEHPHyr1, Zero Emission Hydrogen Powered Hovercraft, is an 8-month feasibility which will de-risk the key barriers to zero-emission hovercraft operations. These barriers include -- operational barriers (socio-economics, crew training, regulations, life cycle impact), technical barriers (hydrogen-based propulsion system) and availability of hydrogen infrastructure (production, storage, distribution, bunkering, integration with wider infrastructure/mobility). The central innovation in the project is the replacement of the diesel engines in today's hovercraft with a zero-emission hydrogen propulsion system consisting of MW class fuel cells, electric thrusters and high-power batteries. The project's goal is to find credible solutions to overcoming the above barriers and in doing so, pave the way for follow-on phases of development, where the novel propulsion system will be demonstrated on 12-seat and 80-seat hovercraft. Introduction of zero-emission hovercraft into commercial service is expected in 2027/28, with letters of support received from potential end users. In addition to the hovercraft, additional spillover products are expected to be commercialised as a result of the project, namely MW class fuel cells and batteries (into other marine vessels) and electric thrusters (into other industries, e.g., aerospace). The project team consists of a best-of-breed consortium well placed to deliver the desired goals of the project. Led by Blue Bear, the team includes, Griffon Hoverwork Limited, Bramble Energy, Nyobolt, Aquatera and the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC).

Nyobolt Ltd is bringing an ultra-fast charging battery technology to the market, providing a solution to critical unmet needs in the automotive sector and beyond. Providing significant advantages over the current state-of-the-art, this innovative battery can reduce vehicle charging from hours to minutes, with long cycle life and improved safety providing high user confidence. The company was founded by Professor Clare Grey and Dr Sai Shivareddy in 2019 and draws on a decade of research on new battery materials within Clare's group at the University of Cambridge. Together with project partner Koura, a global leader in fluorinated materials and technology with extensive production expertise, within this project, Nyobolt seeks to complete pilot testing to validate the production scale-up of cells ahead of entering large-scale series manufacturing.

Nyobolt Ltd is bringing to the market an ultra-fast charging battery technology, providing a solution to critical unmet needs in the automotive sector and beyond. The company was founded by Professor Clare Grey and Dr Sai Shivareddy in 2019 and draws on a decade of research on new battery materials within Clare's group at the University of Cambridge. In this project, supported by the APC Automotive Transformation Fund, they are seeking to scale the manufacture of a high-power battery technology for automotive industry that enables ultra-fast charging without sacrificing lifetime or safety.

CB2tech is supercharging the electric revolution with transformational technologies. They are a Cambridge University spin-out founded in 2019 and a member of the Technology Developer Accelerator Programme at the Advanced Propulsion Centre. As part of the Automotive Transformation Fund program, they are scaling up manufacture of a high-power battery for the automotive industry that enables ultra-fast charging without sacrificing lifetime or safety.

"A large proportion of the Bolivian population live off the electricity grid. This proposal aims to aid the Bolivian company Yacimentos de Litio Bolivianos (YLB), and the local academic communities, to produce low cost batteries to combine with solar panels to provide electricity for up to 250,000 families suffering from energy poverty, energy poverty disproportionally affecting women and children. This project will begin to address the challenge of upscaling the manufacture of battery materials by focusing on translating the UK's expertise in these areas to Bolivia. The feasibility study will identify the areas of principal scientific need and propose mechanisms for filling these gaps over the medium term through knowledge exchange with the UK. Proposed synthesis methods will be trialled and full-cell testing of lithium-iron phosphate batteries will be performed at the University of Cambridge and the Cambridge-based SME CB2Tech. The proposal will facilitate an exchange of UK and Bolivian experts (the UK experts coming from the British Geographical Society and Cambridge) in lithium battery raw materials and technology. Even without further intervention, this study and pilot is expected to accelerate the path to producing batteries for the target number of communities within 24 months, removing the need for research and practice that Bolivian experts would otherwise undertake without access to UK knowledge."