Category Enhanced Battery Development

垂直航空航天公司正在开发一种高性能、完全电动的飞机，能够垂直起降（eVTOL）。目前世界上还没有一种电池系统可以用于这种类型的应用。垂直航空航天公司和伦敦大学学院正在这个项目中合作开发一种电池系统，该系统可以用作类别增强型飞机的主推进装置。这样的电池系统将是世界首创。该项目将利用两个组织的专业知识来优化这种电池的未来设计，以获得最大的能量和功率。同时保持严格的安全标准。该类别增强电池开发项目（CEBD）将开发关键的设计、制造、培训和认证能力，以促进英国主推进电池系统的未来工业化。这对于确保英国开发跨多个不同航空航天平台制造新型电动飞机的核心技术至关重要。

Vertical Aerospace is developing a high performance, entirely electrically powered aircraft capable of Vertical Take Off and Landing (eVTOL). There is currently no battery system in the world that Vertical can use for this type of application. Vertical Aerospace and UCL are working together in this project on the development of a battery system that can be used as primary propulsion in a category enhanced aircraft. Such a battery system would be a world-first. This project will utilise the expertise in both organisations to optimise future designs of this battery for maximum energy and power for the available mass. All the while maintaining stringent safety standards.The Category Enhanced Battery Development project (CEBD) will develop the key design, manufacturing, training and qualification capabilities to facilitate the future industrialisation of a UK-based primary propulsion battery system.This is crucial to ensuring that the UK develops the core technologies to manufacture new electric aircraft across multiple different aerospace platforms.