LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–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 quite a lot 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 providers associate 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 corresponding to aerospace and defence, searching for to speed up their product decarbonisation.
Martin Starkey, Managing Director Ricardo Efficiency Merchandise stated: “Leveraging our confirmed monitor report in industrialising know-how Ricardo is delighted to be working with InoBat to assist set up a sturdy provide chain for vital electrification elements. Ricardo’s future manufacturing technique may be very a lot aligned to this rising want for electrified car elements for the excessive efficiency automotive autos and different equally demanding purposes. In doing so, we are going to speed up the adoption of electrification in these vital sectors by offering a sturdy provide route for key battery merchandise. As well as, we’re serving to to contribute to the inexperienced bounce again by sustainable practices, and serving to to speed up web zero ambitions.”
Iain Wight, Chief Industrial Officer of InoBat commented: “Ricardo’s lengthy historical past of innovation and engineering expertise make it the perfect associate for InoBat. Our complementary capabilities and strategy to battery improvement and manufacturing will make sure that producers have entry to the elements they want, once 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 collaboration, InoBat and Ricardo may also help pave the best way to a greener future.”
This collaboration with InoBat additional enhances Ricardo’s functionality within the manufacturing and provide of vital electrical car elements. In September 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 autos per 12 months. These UK electrified car producers included among the world’s finest recognized status manufacturers which create their luxurious vehicles, particular autos, or off-highway machines for a buyer base within the low hundreds. The financial examine was funded by the Superior Propulsion Centre’s Automotive Transformation Fund supported by the Division for Enterprise, Power and Industrial Technique.
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About Ricardo
Ricardo plc is a worldwide strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting firm, listed on the London Inventory Change. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and using shut to three,000 workers in additional than 20 nations, we offer distinctive ranges of experience in delivering modern and revolutionary cross-sector sustainable merchandise and options. Daily, we allow our clients to resolve probably the most complicated and dynamic challenges to assist obtain a secure and sustainable world. Go to www.ricardo.com
About Inobat
InoBat specialises in pioneering analysis, improvement, manufacture, provide, recycling, and supreme cautious disposal of revolutionary electrical batteries custom-designed to satisfy the precise necessities of worldwide mainstream and specialist OEMs inside the automotive, industrial car, motorsport, and aerospace sectors. InoBat gives revolutionary options throughout all the worth chain because of its ‘cradle-to-cradle’ strategy, which showcases the idea of a round economic system. InoBat is backed by a powerful consortium of strategic traders and companions corresponding to Rio Tinto, Amara Raja, Ideanomics, IFC, IPM Group, Matador, AEN, CSG and Throughout. A European-based battery producer, InoBat already has a battery analysis and improvement facility and pilot line underneath improvement in Slovakia. InoBat has additionally been authorised for grant financing underneath the EU sponsored programme, Necessary Tasks for Frequent European Curiosity, and already acquired a grant from the Slovak Authorities. For extra data and information on InoBat, please go to https://inobatauto.eu