Scaling Anode Technology for the xEV market (SATE)

SATE项目（xEV市场的缩放阳极技术）旨在加速英国下一代电动汽车快速充电电池材料的大规模生产。这种专利材料由Echion Technologies（“Echion”）开发，Echion是一家高增长公司，于2017年从剑桥大学分拆出来，将专有的快速充电电池材料商业化。标准商用电池的充电速度受到它们用来储存电荷的负极材料（称为阳极）的严重限制。Echion开发了一种名为混合氧化铌（MNO）的新型阳极材料，该材料具有安全快速充电（充满电只需6分钟），高能量和功率密度，长循环寿命和低成本的独特组合。这项技术有潜力使更高效和更具成本效益的混合动力汽车受益于改进的再生制动。它还可以应用于全电动汽车，因为它可以通过快速充电减少电池尺寸和成本。这项技术将加速大众市场电动汽车的采用，这符合政府的“零排放之路”战略，并将在减少运输部门的二氧化碳排放和有害微粒方面提供重大的环境和公共卫生效益。SATE项目将确定策略，使Echion的MNO材料在英国大规模生产。为了进行可行性研究，分包商将生产一批中试规模的MNO材料，从而使Echion能够验证规模扩大和商业化的重要里程碑。最终，SATE项目将使Echion能够确保其在英国先进电池材料供应链中的地位。SATE项目将使一种独特的材料快速进入英国电动汽车价值链，为我们的汽车行业提供高附加值的技术。通过促进英国制造业，SATE项目将有助于确保英国在先进电池材料开发和生产领域的国际竞争力。

Project SATE (Scaling Anode Technology for the xEV market) aims to accelerate the large-volume manufacturing of a next-generation fast-charging battery material for electric vehicles in the UK. This patented material has been developed by Echion Technologies ('Echion'), a high-growth company who spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialise proprietary fast-charging battery materials.The speed of charge of standard commercial batteries is severely limited by the negative terminal material which they use to store the electricity upon charge, called the anode. Echion has developed a new anode material called Mixed Niobium Oxide (MNO) which enables a unique combination of safe fast charge (down to 6 min for a full charge), high energy and power density, long cycle life and low cost.This technology has the potential to enable more efficient and cost-effective hybrid vehicles benefiting from improved regenerative braking. It also finds application in full electric vehicles by decreasing battery size and cost with the benefit of fast-charging. This technology will accelerate the adoption of mass-market electric vehicles, which is in line with the government Road to Zero strategy and will provide significant environmental and public health benefits in terms of reduction of CO2 emissions and harmful particulates from the transport sector.Project SATE will identify strategies to enable large-volume manufacturing of Echion's MNO material in the UK. To inform this feasibility study, a pilot-scale MNO material batch will be produced by subcontractors, thereby enabling Echion to validate a significant milestone towards scale-up and commercialisation.Ultimately Project SATE will enable Echion to secure its position in the UK advanced battery materials supply chain. Project SATE will fast-track a unique material into the UK electrified automotive value chain, supplying our automotive industry with a high-added value technology. By promoting UK manufacturing, project SATE will contribute to securing the UK's international competitiveness in the field of advanced battery materials development and production.