The Faraday Institution

电池是电动汽车最重要的组成部分，决定着性能、续航里程、车辆包装、成本和车辆寿命。汽车行业是英国的成功故事，拥有814，000名员工，每年营业额超过775亿英镑。英国拥有欧洲最大的汽车电池和电动汽车制造商。我们的汽车行业致力于从内燃机向电动汽车的过渡，保护和扩大就业和繁荣。如果英国不得不依赖亚洲或美国的电池供应链，它将不会成功。它不会简单地赶上今天的锂电池。我们必须跨越现有技术，更有效地开展大规模的电池基础研究，然后将其更无缝地转化为创新和制造。这是法拉第挑战赛的雄心，由政府宣布和资助，其三个要素：法拉第研究所（研究），创新英国（开发）和先进推进中心（工业化）。特别是法拉第研究所，必须投资于英国的科学和工程基础，以便它推动创新，为英国提供领先的电池技术。我们建议建立法拉第研究所总部（FIHQ）作为一个独立的组织，总部设在英国科学中心哈威尔，并在国家电池制造开发设施建成后设立一个卫星办公室。它不属于任何大学或大学集团，也不与特定公司结盟。这将是一个英国的资源。FIHQ将由一个由学术界、工业界和独立人士组成的独立董事会管理。它将包含一个专家小组，将英国电池知识库汇集在一个组织中。专家小组将把工业对更好电池的需求转化为具体的研究挑战，并呼吁大学部门提出建议，以开展研究，以应对这些挑战。它将支持大学内研究项目的知识领导，审查项目，就资源的分配和重新分配以及项目的停止/开始向董事会提供建议。专职人员将努力确保最大范围的开发研究转移到创新并最终生产。知识产权将由大学拥有，但汇集在一起，形成一个电池知识产权组合，其价值大于其各部分的总和。总部将实施一项培训方案。这将包括与FI研究项目一起放置在大学的学生的博士集群，但也包括整个法拉第机构的强烈的队列精神。对工业和政府的培训将是FIHQ活动的一个重要组成部分。.通过将电池战略研究作为一个国家管理的投资组合，并以更大的规模和重点进行，我们不仅将提高英国电池研究的质量和能力，而且还将使英国成为领先电池技术的首选之地。通过这样做，我们将支持未来的英国制造业，就业和繁荣。

Summary The battery is the most important component of electric vehicles, determining performance, range, vehicle packaging, cost and vehicle lifetime. The automotive industry is a UK success story, employing 814,000 people and turning over £77.5bn per year. The UK is home to Europe's largest automotive battery and EV manufacturer. Our automotive industry is committed to the transition from the internal combustion engine to electric vehicles, preserving and expanding jobs and prosperity. The UK will not succeed if it has to rely on Asian or US supply chains for batteries. It will not succeed by simply catching up with today's lithium batteries. We must leapfrog current technology by carrying out more effectively and at scale basic research in batteries and then translating it more seamlessly into innovation and manufacture. This is the ambition of the Faraday Challenge, announced and funded by government, with its three elements: the Faraday Institution (research), Innovate UK (development) and the Advanced Propulsion Centre (industrialisation). The Faraday Institution, in particular, must invest in the UK science and engineering base so that it drives innovation, delivering leading edge battery technology for Britain. We propose to establish the Faraday Institute headquarters (FIHQ) as an independent organization, based at Harwell, the centre of UK science, and with a satellite office at the National Battery Manufacturing Development Facility once completed. It will not belong to any University or group of universities, nor be aligned with particular companies. It will be a UK resource. The FIHQ will be governed by an independent board drawn from academia, industry and independents. It will contain an Expert Panel bringing together in one organisation the UK knowledge base in batteries. The Expert Panel will translate industrial needs for better batteries into specific research challenges and scope calls for proposals from the University sector to carry out research to meet these challenges. It will support intellectual leadership to the Research Projects within the universities, review the projects, advise the board on allocation and reallocation of resources and stop/start of projects. Dedicated personnel will work to ensure research with the greatest scope for exploitation is transferred to innovation and ultimately manufacture. Intellectual property will be owned by the universities but pooled, forming a portfolio of battery IP with a value greater than the sum of its parts. The headquarters will run a training programme. This will include are PhD cluster with the students placed in the universities alongside the FI Research Projects but also with a strong cohort ethos across the Faraday institution. Training for industry and government will be a strong element of the FIHQ activities. . By carrying out strategic research in batteries as a nationally managed portfolio and with greater scale and focus, we will not only enhance the quality and capacity of UK battery research, but also establish the UK as the go to place for leading battery technology. By doing so we will supporting the future UK manufacturing industry, jobs and prosperity.