Ashwoods battery spin-off wins Shell springboard award 04 February 2011

Ashwoods Energy, which supplies batteries and battery management systems to electric and hybrid vehicle producers, has won the regional finals of the Shell Springboard awards.

The award means £30,000 in start-up funding for the company, which san out of Ashwoods Automotive, of Hybrid Transit commercial van fame.

"The lithium-ion batteries in our Ashwoods Hybrid Transit are constantly storing and releasing energy, so they have to be extremely robust and must be micro-managed to ensure maximum efficiency," comments Mark Roberts, managing director of Ashwoods Automotive.

"We trialled countless battery management systems, but none of them matched our expectations, so in the end we developed our own. The result is an extremely effective and highly marketable technology, supported by our 750,000 road miles of data," he adds.

The Shell Springboard award was established to promote innovative UK small businesses with compelling ideas to combat climate change, and has awarded more than £1.6 million in grant funding to 43 UK companies since its launch in 2005.

Ashwoods is the single largest supplier to the UK government's Low Carbon Vehicle Procurement Programme, delivering more than 120 hybrid vans to public sector bodies, including the Royal Mail and Transport for London.

Author
Brian Tinham

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