Battery Innovation Feasibility Studies Round 2

UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £25 million for innovation in battery technologies for electrification. This funding is from the battery innovation programme.

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In Short

Project Duration Project Duration

6 - 18 months

Project Costs Project Costs

£70,000 - £500,000

Application Deadline Application Deadline

27 May 2026

Themes

We are particularly interested in funding projects from the groups below:

Innovations that strengthen sustainable, competitive access to raw materials.

We encourage projects that:

  • develop sustainable extraction methods with reduced environmental impact
  • enhance efficiency, yield or purity of raw materials used in battery chemistries
  • support substitution, diversification, or novel sources of critical minerals
  • incorporate environmental monitoring, traceability, or responsible sourcing technologies
  • integrate digital tools for resource mapping, process optimisation or environmental protection
  • enable UK access to advanced materials crucial for next generation cells

Advancing processed materials required for high performance, cost effective cells.

We encourage projects that:

  • innovate in cathode, anode, electrolyte or separator materials
  • scale up processing of active materials for next generation chemistries (for example: solid state, sodium-ion, LFP, high nickel, silicon rich)
  • improve energy, water or reagent efficiency in material production
  • enhance material consistency, purity and performance through improved processing routes
  • apply digital tools, modelling, or automation to improve throughput and quality
  • integrate sustainability, recycling feedstocks or circular inputs into the materials process

Improving cell manufacturing capability, quality, cost and scalability.

We encourage projects that:

  • advance electrode manufacturing, cell assembly and formation processes
  • develop tools, equipment or automation solutions for improved production efficiency
  • enable scale up from lab to pilot line to gigafactory levels
  • introduce in line diagnostics, digital twins and modelling to improve quality and reduce scrap
  • reduce energy demand, waste or environmental impacts in cell production
  • support industrialisation of new chemistries or formats (pouch, cylindrical, prismatic)
  • integrate design for manufacturing approaches for improved yield and reliability

Enhancing system level performance, durability, safety and integration.

We encourage projects that:

  • innovate in module and pack design, structural systems, or fast assembly techniques
  • improve safety systems, early warning diagnostics and fault tolerant designs
  • develop advanced BMS functionality, state of health or state of charge algorithms
  • create thermal management innovations including new materials, architectures or control systems
  • apply simulation, digital twins or data driven optimisation for real world performance
  • enable circularity ready or end of life friendly design
  • support application specific optimisation for automotive, aerospace, maritime, rail, defence or stationary storage

Strengthening UK capability in end of life processing, reuse, recovery and circularity.

We encourage projects that:

  • advance processes for dismantling, sorting and safe handling of end of life batteries
  • develop improved recovery pathways for critical materials and black mass refining
  • integrate recycled materials back into upstream production
  • develop reuse, second life or remanufacturing technologies
  • reduce waste and environmental footprint across the end of life system
  • introduce digital tracking, provenance and circular economy systems across the lifecycle
  • create business models or technologies that enable circularity at scale

Your project can target performance requirements for at least one of the listed sectors and can support emerging use cases or cross sector applicability including sector as defence, aerospace and battery energy storage:

  • automotive sector including on and off highway vehicles, motorsports and niche automotive
  • aerospace
  • battery energy storage systems
  • rail
  • maritime
  • defence (Innovation must be dual use with clear relevance beyond defence application)

Eligibility

Have a grant funding request of between £70,000 and £500,000; last between 6 and 18 months; not start before 1 October 2026; end by 31 March 2028; Must be a UK registered business (any size); Consortium must include at least one UK SME claiming grant funding; Academic institutions cannot lead; Partners can be UK businesses, universities, charities, RTOs, public sector or not-for-profits; At least two organisations must claim funding; No single partner can exceed 70% of total eligible costs; Non-UK/non-funded partners are permitted but cover their own costs

Our Approach

The UK team has a strong track record in securing some of the most competitive national and European grants on behalf of its clients, with a full understanding of how a project should be presented to stand the highest chance of success. Each year in the UK alone, we are responsible for the submission of more than 100 funding applications across all sectors and priority areas. Based on this extensive experience, through careful project selection and using key insight into how a project should be best positioned, we consistently achieve success rates that are more than 5 times the typical success rates for UK national schemes and EU programmes.

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