Upscaling LiFePO4 battery production for Bolivia

“玻利维亚很大一部分人口生活在电网之外。该提案旨在帮助玻利维亚公司Yacimentos de Litio Bolivianos （YLB）和当地学术界生产与太阳能电池板相结合的低成本电池，为多达25万个遭受能源贫困的家庭提供电力，而能源贫困对妇女和儿童的影响尤为严重。该项目将开始解决电池材料制造升级的挑战，重点是将英国在这些领域的专业知识转化为玻利维亚。可行性研究将确定主要科学需求的领域，并提出通过与英国的知识交流在中期填补这些空白的机制。拟议的合成方法将在剑桥大学和剑桥的中小企业CB2Tech进行试验，并对磷酸铁锂电池进行全电池测试。该提案将促进英国和玻利维亚专家（来自英国地理学会和剑桥大学的英国专家）在锂电池原材料和技术方面的交流。即使没有进一步的干预，这项研究和试点预计将在24个月内加速为目标社区生产电池的道路，从而消除了玻利维亚专家在无法获得英国知识的情况下进行研究和实践的需要。”

"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."