Battery and self-driving vehicle research to begin in Warwick
18 May 2017 by Evoluted New Media
The government have announced a wave of funding for both high energy battery research and an autonomous vehicle research project at the University of Warwick.
The BMW group will lead the project to design and develop power dense batteries in the UK, which will aid in the widespread use of electric vehicles other than cars. Autonomous vehicle research will be carried out under the lead of AECOM – an American multinational engineering firm.
Professor Dave Greenwood from WMG at the University of Warwick said: “This research collaboration will utilise WMG’s electrochemical materials and engineering expertise, and use WMG’s world class battery testing and validation facilities, for understanding optimal power density in application of Li-ion battery cells, modules and packs.”
The combined projects will receive a total of £4.25m, with £3.8m earmarked for WMG’s role in developing power dense batteries. The research will investigate high power battery research –important for vehicle sectors such as rail, marine, buses and trucks. Both sets of funding were announced by Business Secretary Greg Clark and Transport Minister John Hayes.
The second project – CAPRI – has secured funding from Innovate UK and the Centre for Connected and Autonomous Centre (CCAV) to deliver an on-road mobility service pilot. This will be end with on-road trials taking place at the Queen Elizabeth Park in London.
