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are not present in ‘normal’ operating failure, and accelerate the development of Results will include the optimization of conditions. A key goal for the automotive new battery chemistries through the battery materials and cells to extend industry is to better understand the holistic and coordinated efforts of the battery life (and hence EV range), reduce causes and mechanisms of degradation to research. An ability to fully understand the battery costs, and enhance battery safety. enable improved control and prediction of causes of low lifetime in lithium ion With Cambridge, university partners the state of health of battery systems. batteries will place the UK at the forefront include University of Glasgow, University of the next generation of battery electric College London, , Degradation mechanisms can occur on vehicle technology. , University of length-scales from the nano to the Strathclyde, , macroscopic, and timescales from seconds University of Southampton, University of up to years; a full understanding of the PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR Liverpool and . causes and effects of degradation of Professor Clare Grey FRS, University of lithium ion batteries for automotive Cambridge, Department of Despite the recent reduction in cost of applications therefore requires synergistic lithium ion batteries driven by mass investigation across these length and time https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/person/cpg27 manufacture, the widespread adoption of scales and with the combination of many battery electrical vehicles is still hindered experimental techniques. A cross- by cost and durability, with the lifetimes of disciplinary consortium of researchers UNIVERSITY PARTNERS the batteries falling well below the and industry partners has been created consumer expectation for long-term with the goal to develop a comprehensive • University of Cambridge (lead) applications such as transport. mechanistic understanding of the • Imperial College London relationship between external stimuli • Newcastle University Additionally, fast charging of battery (such as temperature and cycling rate) • University College London electric vehicles is crucial to help assuage and the physical and chemical processes • University of Glasgow range anxiety and provide the operational occurring inside the battery that lead to • convenience required for mass adoption of degradation. This Fast Start Project will • University of Manchester the technology. Fast charging, however, provide a more complete understanding of • University of Southampton can rapidly accelerate degradation and the signatures of degradation, lead to • University of Strathclyde even trigger degradation mechanisms that increased lifetime and better prediction of • University of Warwick • And 10 industrial collaborators CONTENTS LOGO CLEAR SPACE MINIMUM SIZE WITH HM GOV MARQUE THINGS TO AVOID COLOUR TYPOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHIC STYLE GRAPHIC PATTERN

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