Safebatt news
June 2025 SafeBatt Industry Engagement day
Thank you to everyone who attended SafeBatt’s Industry Engagement Day at UCL East on 18th June. We hope you had a great time! The day was extremely well attended by academic, industrial and government stakeholders, and we have received amazing feedback! There were presentations from Electrical Safety First and the Health and Safety Executive, as well as a broad section of industry presentations from Fortescue Zero, Vertical Aerospace and Ilika, spanning motorsport, heavy duty applications, aerospace and next generation (solid state) technologies. The SafeBatt team showcased its work around large scale module and pack testing (Newcastle University), internal instrumentation of cells (University of Warwick) and modelling of flaming cells (King’s College London). We ran two brilliant panels covering the themes of Standards and Testing, with expert contributions from The Faraday Institution, Horiba Mira, National Research Council Canada, University College London, Newcastle University, University of Warwick and a consultant to UK standards, regulations and technical committees. Thank you to all our amazing presenters, panel members and audience for making the day so informative, interesting and enjoyable!
September 2024
Huge congratulations to SafeBatt Co-Investigator Dr Francesco Restuccia, Senior Lecturer in Engineering at King’s College London, who has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council funding for work on wildfires.
Dr Restuccia’s FIREMOD project aims at producing a fundamental physics model for predicting why and when wild fires spread, aiming at saving lives as well as property.
September 2023
The SafeBatt project is very proud to receive the Faraday Institution Community Award for Public Engagement in September! The public outreach award is given in recognition of outstanding contributions to the wider understanding of an area of science, through clear and effective communication, or through the leadership or training of others.
The SafeBatt team regularly engages with academia, industry, policy makers, general public and first responders on safety related battery topics.
September 2024
SafeBatt is delighted and honoured to have won the Electrical Safety First Safety Innovation Award 2024!
September 2023
Many congratulations to Arthur Fordham, SafeBatt PhD Researcher at UCL, for winning the Industrial Context Poster Award at the Faraday Institution conference! Arthur’s poster “Listening to Batteries: Using acoustic characterisation techniques to improve battery performance and safety” showed how acoustic emissions could be used to anticipate thermal runaway in a cell. The judges’ comments were “The research motivation was clearly articulated and the research was aiming to solve a key safety challenge being experienced across the industry, with a potentially low-cost solution identified”. Congrats Arthur!
July 2023
Check out our Faraday Institution Insight publication: Improving the Safety of Lithium-ion Battery Cells
