Software-accelerated battery pack developer, IONETIC, has revealed the first details of an all-new £5 million smart battery production pilot facility in the UK.
Called Arc Fab Pilot, the phase one battery pack manufacturing plant in Brackley is set to be brought online in 2025 and has been designed to significantly slash the time-to-market and development costs for electric vehicles – reducing risk for automakers needing custom battery packs and providing a local approach to battery-pack manufacture in light of ongoing uncertainty affecting the EV sector.
The 5,000 sq ft facility will also serve as IONETIC’s global HQ and industrialisation centre, creating 30 high-skill jobs in its first phase.
The £5 million Arc Fab Pilot facility will be fully-operational by Q3 2025, having opened in Q4 2024, marking a key step in IONETIC’s mission to provide specialist OEMs – such as those producing trucks, buses, off-highway and commercial vehicles – with a rapid, cost-effective route to high-quality, customised EV battery packs.
James Eaton, CEO and Co-Founder of IONETIC, said: “With EV adoption accelerating, OEMs need effective, flexible battery solutions. By embedding agility into the core of our production model, we’re removing the most significant barriers to custom EV battery production; cost, time, risk and scalability.
“Arc Fab Pilot will be the first step towards unleashing the potential of our Arc technology stack, allowing us to produce custom battery packs at a speed and price point that the current market simply doesn’t allow for, from right here in the UK.”
The Arc Fab Pilot Facility will use automation hardware and integrated control systems from Rockwell Automation, as well as software such as Emulate3D platform to build comprehensive digital twins of IONETIC’s production facilities.
