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WE BUILD A LITHIUM ION BATTERY

OPPORTUNITIES like this one don’t come around very often – the chance to build a lithium-ion electric car battery cell from scratch, to see the inner workings of a device that usually stays closed because its contents are flammable, and to hear an expert ‘how it works’ explanation from one of the world’s foremost experts on EV batteries.

There are only a couple of places in the United Kingdom where batteries are built from raw materials and one of them is the prototype manufacturing plant at Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), a department of the illustrious University of Warwick. Our mentor for the day is Professor David Greenwood, a brilliant communicator of

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