Battery technology of tomorrow moving ever closer thanks to researchers at Coventry University

Researchers at Coventry University have been recognised for their work in creating and inspiring the batteries of the future which will power electric vehicles and much more.

Three academics from the university’s Research Centre for E-mobility and Clean Growth have received prestigious Industry Fellowships from the Faraday Institution for their work advancing battery technology.

Among them is Dr Cheng Zhang who is working with Elysia Battery Intelligence from Fortescue to advance next-generation, physics-driven battery management algorithms. The focus is on improving the robustness and verifiability of the algorithms to bridge the gap between theory and real-world deployment, and to ensure advanced battery models are high performing, reliable and ready for industrial deployment at scale.

Dr Joe Fleming is looking to improve how batteries are monitored and controlled by collaborating with FEV whose new approach sends data and power through the same wires inside the battery, reducing complexity and extra wiring. As the system will work with any type of battery, it will advance efficiency and versatility.

The third fellowship is for Professor Alex Roberts’ work alongside Hy-Met to further develop and demonstrate the company’s ultrasonic sensing and diagnostic technique for use in quality control and in-line monitoring across multiple stages of battery production.

Professor Roberts will manufacture battery cells with various classes of known defects to help machine learning algorithms looking for defect classification and understanding of how the signals correlate to cell performance.

The Faraday Institution introduced its fellowships in 2020 to strengthen ties between battery researchers in academia and industry.

Find out more about the Research Centre for E-mobility and Clean Growth.