The surface engineering sector has an essential role to play in the future of the U.K. economy and especially in automotive battery drive technology. This particular business is predicted to grow within the EU from £5 billion in 2017 to £50 billion, by 2025. It is also estimated that as the importance of electric vehicles increases, about 50 million new passenger vehicles will be needed by 2030. However, there are many challenges to overcome, such as in the formation, development and modification of new coatings and structures that will help battery technologists deliver the required performance improvements. Progress in these automotive battery developments was a topic of discussion at a recent meeting at the National Motorcycle Museum near Coventry, organised by U.K. Research and Innovation, through Innovate UK (aka Technology Strategy Board). To help make the U.K. a world leader in this technology, in 2017 the Government set up the Faraday Challenge, which is funded through the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) and is part of the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF). However, the Government has recently announced a planned tightening of its green objectives, by stopping the sale of new diesel, petrol and hybrid vehicles in 2035, instead of aiming to have the majority of new vehicles sold by 2040 as zero emission. This will result in the need for up to 50 million new vehicles and has suddenly put a greatly increased pressure on the automotive battery sector to deliver better performances in electric vehicle batteries. The Faraday Challenge comprises 3 stages: Research, Innovation and Scale up, while it’s objectives are to develop cost-effective, high quality, durable, safe, lightweight and recyclable batteries for the automotive industry. Its original funding was up to £246 million between 2017 and 2021, but by late 2019 this had increased to £274 million. The Faraday Challenge’s key objectives are:

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法拉第挑战——汽车电池技术的机遇

表面工程部门在英国经济的未来发展中发挥着重要作用，尤其是在汽车电池驱动技术方面。预计到 2025 年，欧盟内部的这项特殊业务将从 2017 年的 50 亿英镑增长到 500 亿英镑。据估计，随着电动汽车重要性的增加，到 2030 年将需要大约 5000 万辆新乘用车。然而，有许多挑战需要克服，例如在新涂层和结构的形成、开发和修改方面，这将有助于电池技术人员实现所需的性能改进。这些汽车电池开发的进展是最近在考文垂附近的国家摩托车博物馆举行的一次会议上讨论的话题，该会议由英国研究与创新组织通过创新英国（又名技术战略委员会）组织。为了帮助英国成为这项技术的世界领先者，政府于 2017 年设立了法拉第挑战，该挑战由商业、能源和工业战略部 (BEIS) 资助，是工业战略挑战基金 (ISCF) 的一部分. 然而，政府最近宣布了一项计划收紧其绿色目标，即在 2035 年停止销售新的柴油、汽油和混合动力汽车，而不是旨在到 2040 年销售的大部分新车为零排放。这将导致多达 5000 万辆新车的需求，并突然给汽车电池行业带来了更大的压力，以提供更好的电动汽车电池性能。法拉第挑战包括 3 个阶段：研究、创新和扩大规模，而其目标是开发具有成本效益的、用于汽车行业的高质量、耐用、安全、轻便和可回收的电池。它的原始资金在 2017 年至 2021 年间高达 2.46 亿英镑，但到 2019 年底已增至 2.74 亿英镑。法拉第挑战的主要目标是：