{"id":31741,"date":"2023-07-03T09:15:43","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T08:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=31741"},"modified":"2023-07-03T09:29:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T08:29:53","slug":"transforming-battery-energy-storage-industries-innovative-new-technologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/transforming-battery-energy-storage-industries-innovative-new-technologies\/31741\/","title":{"rendered":"Transforming the battery and energy storage industries with innovative new technologies"},"content":{"rendered":"
Spearheaded by Founder and CEO Maurizio Cunningham Brown, Ultimate Battery Company (UBC) is on a mission to transform the vehicle battery and energy storage markets with its wide range of products designed to significantly reduce CO2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions.<\/p>\n The company\u2019s patented Duophasic technologies enable modular battery designs which reduce cost and weight and double energy density, compared to traditional products. After a successful period of prototyping and proof-of-concept trials, UBC has now commenced initial manufacturing of its first-generation modular batteries, Duophasic COR. Based in the UK, UBC has invested \u00a328m in a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant, which will create 500 jobs.<\/p>\n To find out more about UBC\u2019s journey from launch to full-scale production, as well as its plans for the future, The Innovation Platform<\/em> spoke to Maurizio Cunningham Brown.<\/p>\n Over the past three decades, I have created and sold successful businesses \u2013 you could call me a serial entrepreneur. When I sold my last business, I started to look around for the next opportunity. Very quickly, I identified the energy storage market as one that was ripe for innovation to take advantage of the drive to net-zero carbon.<\/p>\n In 2017, I founded Ultimate Battery Company to develop green, safe, energy-dense batteries for transportation, energy storage and many other applications. Over the next few years, I recruited a team of leading industry players and we started to develop and test our first-generation product \u2013 a drop-in replacement starting, lighting, and ignition (SLI) battery. By 2020, we were ready to enter into a collaboration with the University of Sheffield\u2019s Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) to develop mass production techniques and at the same time file our patents.<\/p>\n Along the way, thanks in part to support from the Department for International Trade (DIT), people were beginning to hear about us and take notice. We were chosen by the History of Parliament Trust as one of only 200 companies to be featured in the official History of Parliament commemorative History Album to celebrate 300 years of Leadership and Innovation. We attended the Global Investment Summit and reception hosted by Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle.<\/p>\n In 2021, we secured funding support from the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority. This key investment gave us the opportunity to secure premises, purchase key equipment, and build our team.<\/p>\n Now in 2023, we are ready to make the step change into full-scale manufacturing and start research and development into the next innovations to make electric vehicles (EVs) truly desirable and accessible.<\/p>\n Our mission is to transform the vehicle battery and energy storage markets with products that significantly reduce CO2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n UBC is dedicated to creating affordable, innovative, and sustainable solutions that revolutionise performance in lightweight battery power for transport, defence, and energy storage. We help our customers reduce cost, improve performance, and significantly reduce CO2<\/sub>\u00a0emissions.<\/p>\n Our patented, breakthrough Duophasic technologies enable modular battery designs which reduce cost and weight and double energy density, compared to traditional products.<\/p>\n These technologies deliver lower cost batteries with significant and sustainable environmental and economic benefits.<\/p>\n We care about our planet, and we care about our people. We treat our customers and supply partners fairly. In partnership with other like-minded organisations, we create solutions that reduce carbon emissions and offer future generations a more sustainable world.<\/p>\n We adopt initiatives that create work opportunities open to everyone, and help people back into work. Through our socially responsible division, UBC BrightSpark, we pledge a proportion of our production, working with partners to broaden energy access in emerging economies.<\/p>\n <\/p>\nCan you explain the background behind the company and how it has progressed?<\/h3>\n
What are your key aims and objectives?<\/h3>\n
Can you detail the technology and its benefits? What makes it different to lithium and hydrogen?<\/h3>\n