UK Battery Research and Development Centre Feasibility Study

随着交通运输电气化在所有主要领域的加速发展，原始设备制造商和电池开发商对知识和设施的需求越来越大，以支持电气化产品的研究、开发和验证。英国目前没有能力或能力来满足这一不断增长的需求。由于将电池运往欧盟或美国进行开发测试的成本和时间延迟，这使得英国公司处于明显的劣势——即使可以确定这样的容量。AVL和WMG提议建立一个先进的电池研发中心，位于中部的威尔斯伯恩，可以为英国汽车行业和其他行业提供创新技能和基础设施：**英国电池研究与发展中心（UKBRDC）。**该中心将开发和应用最先进的开发和验证方法，并将为英国oem和电池开发商提供AVL和WMG的综合知识和能力。操作范围将包括电池、模块和电池组规模的测试和开发，结合预期的未来需求，如更大、更高电压的模块和电池组，以及在电池组级别进行可重复滥用测试的需求。虽然该中心最初专注于汽车行业，但随着它们的发展，该中心将扩展到航空航天、非公路、船舶、铁路和静态能源存储市场。通过提供测试和开发能力，该中心完全补充了英国政府在该领域的投资，例如法拉第挑战，英国电池工业化中心，驱动电力革命，以及APC和IUK研发计划。

As electrification of transport accelerates in all major sectors, OEMs and battery developers have an increasing need for knowledge and facilities to support research, development and validation of electrified products. The UK does not currently have the capability or capacity to meet this growing demand. This puts UK companies at a significant disadvantage due to the cost and time delays of shipping batteries to the EU or USA for development testing -- even when such capacity can be identified.AVL and WMG propose to set up an advanced battery research and development centre, located at Wellesbourne in the Midlands, that can offer the innovative skills and infrastructure to the UK automotive industry and beyond: the **UK Battery Research and Development Centre (UKBRDC).** This centre will develop and apply state-of-the-art development and validation methodologies, and will offer the combined knowledge and capability of AVL and WMG to UK OEMs and battery developers.The scope of operations will include cell, module and pack scale testing and development, incorporating expected future requirements such as larger and higher voltage modules and packs, and the need for repeatable abuse testing at pack level.Whilst initially focused on the Automotive sector, the centre will be scoped to grow into aerospace, off-highway, marine, rail and static energy storage markets as they evolve.By offering test and development capability, this centre is fully complementary to investments already by UK government in this area, such as the Faraday Challenge, UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, Driving the Electric Revolution, and the APC and IUK research and development programmes.