UK cash boost for batteries, robots and medical technology

The funding, which is being made through the governments Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund and which will be managed by UK Research & Innovation (UKRI), includes almost £44m for the Faraday Battery Challenge, which – as previously reported by The Engineer - is exploring and driving the development of next generation high performance batteries. This funding will also be used to complete the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, in Coventry, West Midlands, which is exploring the challenges of taking new battery technologies into production.

Tony Harper, Challenge Director for The Faraday Battery Challenge said: “In order for batteries to play their full environmental and economic role in achieving Net Zero, we need to deploy at scale and build supply chains for today’s technology, shift from strong potential to commercial dominance in a new generation of batteries and continue to build world-class scientific capability to sustain us into the future.”