Stuart Nathan

The Engineer Q&A: Battery technology and the future of electrification

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Battery development is a key component of our electric future.  The Engineer asked four leading figures in the battery sector how they see this important technology developing in the coming years.

Energy storage is increasingly vital, both for the ongoing shift from fossil-fuel powered to electric vehicles and to bolster the grid to cope with generation from intermittent renewables. Batteries are a major focus for engineering research and a key part of UK industrial strategy. The Engineer quizzed UK-based and British experts on what’s to come.

 

Dr Amrit Chandan - chief executive of Aceleron, a clean technology company which builds lithium ion battery packs using recycled cells from automotive systems.

Dave Sandells, chief technology officer of Hyperdrive, a designer, developer and manufacturer of battery systems with a 9000 square foot, 30,000 unit/year factory in Northeast England

Scott McGregor, chief executive of RedT, a Jersey-based specialist in vanadium redox flow industrial energy storage systems

Alan Greenshields, chairman, Innolith, Switzerland-based innovative battery developer

Are you seeing new battery technologies (i.e. non-conventional lithium ion) getting close to the markets now?

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