Ricardo will apply its functionality in area of interest quantity manufacturing, battery meeting and complicated provide chain administration in collaboration with battery cell manufacturing consultants, InoBat, to ascertain a safe provide of crucial electrical car parts.
As a part of its mission to assist the decarbonisation of the worldwide transport and power sectors, Ricardo, a worldwide strategic environmental and engineering consultancy firm with specialisms in area of interest manufacturing and industrial engineering, has signed a memorandum of understanding with InoBat, a pioneer of premium electrical car battery R&D, engineering, manufacturing and recycling, to collectively provide battery cells, modules and packs to excessive efficiency automotive producers for his or her electrification programmes.
Ricardo and InoBat will co-operate on the meeting, manufacturing and testing of cells, modules and full battery packs for plenty of excessive efficiency automotive purposes. Drawing on its experience in proprietary battery cell R&D and large-scale battery cell manufacturing, InoBat will manufacture, take a look at and provide cells. As a globally trusted engineering and manufacturing companies companion for clear, environment friendly, built-in propulsion and power programs, Ricardo will design, assemble and take a look at the battery packs and can provide them to clients principally within the excessive efficiency automotive market, but additionally in different sectors comparable to aerospace and defence, in search of to speed up their product decarbonisation.
Martin Starkey, Managing Director Ricardo Efficiency Merchandise mentioned: “Leveraging our confirmed observe file in industrialising expertise Ricardo is delighted to be working with InoBat to assist set up a strong provide chain for crucial electrification parts. Ricardo’s future manufacturing technique could be very a lot aligned to this rising want for electrified car parts for the excessive efficiency automotive automobiles and different equally demanding purposes. In doing so, we are going to speed up the adoption of electrification in these crucial sectors by offering a strong provide route for key battery merchandise. As well as, we’re serving to to contribute to the inexperienced bounce again by means of sustainable practices, and serving to to speed up internet zero ambitions.”
Iain Wight, Chief Industrial Officer of InoBat commented: “Ricardo’s lengthy historical past of innovation and engineering expertise make it the perfect companion for InoBat. Our complementary capabilities and method to battery growth and manufacturing will be certain that producers have entry to the parts they want, after they want them, serving to speed up the transfer to inexperienced mobility. I’m delighted that we’re partnering with an organization with a shared sustainability ethos and, by means of collaboration, InoBat and Ricardo may help pave the way in which to a greener future.”
This collaboration with InoBat additional enhances Ricardo’s functionality within the manufacturing and provide of crucial electrical car parts. In April 2021, Ricardo acquired UK Authorities funding to evaluate the industrial viability of a facility to assemble battery packs for UK producers which produce fewer than 10,000 electrified automobiles per 12 months. These UK electrified car producers included a number of the world’s greatest identified status manufacturers which create their luxurious automobiles, particular automobiles, or off-highway machines for a buyer base within the low hundreds. The financial research was funded by the Superior Propulsion Centre’s Automotive Transformation Fund supported by the Division for Enterprise, Power and Industrial Technique.