Powering up UK battery manufacturing

A £13m project is considering effective assembly procedures for ensuring appropriate quality and reliability for the electric vehicle battery packs of the future If electric vehicles are to assume a central role in personal and public transport in the coming decades then several things need to happen to make that a practical reality not least the development of new more energy-intensive battery technologies and comprehensive recharging infrastructures. But there will also have to be something else – effective assembly procedures using state-of-the-art techniques for ensuring appropriate quality and reliability for the battery packs that will provide the vehicles with their power source. Moreover, they will also have to be procedures that can be scaled up with no compromise to those essential preconditions from initially low to much higher production rates as market demand increases.