Faraday Battery Challenge Round 6

Innovate UK is investing in innovation projects in propulsion battery technologies for electric vehicles across two competition strands. The Faraday Battery Challenge (FBC) aims to:

• Ensure the UK automotive sector meets its net zero commitments in the required timescale, by enabling the development and scale-up of sustainable battery technologies.
• Ensure the UK prospers from a just and fair transition to electrification, by taking action to develop a world class intellectual and physical supply chain for batteries in the UK.

The competitions aim to:

• Support business-led research and development of sustainable propulsion batteries.
• Support technologies with the potential to enter the automotive market and, where appropriate, allow for early or synergistic entry into other sectors.
• Move UK battery innovations from technological potential towards commercial capability.
• Develop and secure material and manufacturing supply chains for battery technologies in the UK.

The two strands are:

• Faraday Battery Challenge Round 6Innovation: Collaborative Research and Development (CR&D)
• Faraday Battery Challenge Round 6 Innovation: Feasibility Studies

This CR&D strand will support the research and development of the most promising, innovative and sustainable battery technologies for the propulsion of electric vehicles in the automotive sector​.

Feasibility studies will:

• Draw on the most exciting, high potential impact, early-stage research where a feasibility study of 3 to 12 months, can catalyse the route to commercialisation.
• Support short-term focused projects which could open avenues for overcoming big challenges in manufacturing or other critical processes for advancing the technology.