Raeon Ltd, a leading innovator in custom battery design and manufacturing for niche vehicles, is proud to announce the opening of its new Test and Validation Centre at MIRA Technology Park in Nuneaton.
This expansion significantly enhances Raeon’s capabilities, moving beyond its Oxfordshire headquarters to provide comprehensive battery testing and validation services.
The new facility will be equipped for a wide range of battery testing processes, including temperature cycling, high power testing, thermal shock, high altitude low pressure, charge and discharge cycling, humidity testing, and active cooling characterisation.
This investment underscores Raeon’s commitment to delivering high-performance, custom-optimised batteries for diverse applications across automotive, defence, marine, motorsport, warehousing, robotics, eVTOL, drones, and off-highway sectors.
“We are incredibly grateful for MIRA’s support in opening this new site,” said Murray Schofield, CEO & CTO of Raeon Ltd. “This expansion is a crucial step in our mission to make custom batteries accessible and justifiable for a wider range of industries, not just the highest volume applications. Our proprietary FloLock™ technology, combined with AI-driven design, allows us to deliver custom batteries at significantly lower costs and up to 80% faster than traditional solutions, with prototype batteries delivered within 12 weeks.”
Raeon’s unique approach addresses the significant challenges faced by businesses in niche markets, where the cost and lead time for custom battery development have historically been prohibitive. The company’s innovative manufacturing process, which includes the use of resin encapsulation and dual-layer bus bar technology, enables rapid scaling of designs and production of various shapes and sizes from a single production line.
This flexibility is vital for the electrification of “everything else” beyond mass-produced electric cars, contributing to a greener future.
The new Test and Validation Centre will play a pivotal role in accelerating the certification process for Raeon’s custom-configured batteries, allowing for much faster delivery to customers.
About Raeon
Raeon was founded in May 2023 by three engineers who had previously worked together at Arrival where they were instrumental in the design, validation and production of the battery modules for all Arrival and Charge vehicles.
Shocked by the cost of development of batteries for the mobility space, and frustrated with the sector’s rigid, innovation stifling processes, the team set out to change the paradigm of both battery design and manufacture.
The team conceived a new method for battery module construction which significantly reduces tooling constraints and delivers both design flexibility and enables the ability to rapidly iterate solutions. Patent pending, batteries can be manufactured “any shape” tailored to best utilise the available space. The premise also decouples design and manufacture from cell technology, allowing the adoption of the latest cell technology at any point during design, and in fact even during production.
Today Raeon serves small to medium size markets that would historically have struggled to justify the development of bespoke batteries, but for whom a tailored solution unlocks performance and customer demand.