UK-based EV battery repair and remanufacturing specialist Autocraft Solutions Group has won the Green Award at the Automechanika Frankfurt Innovation Awards 2026 for its REVIVE workshops, which diagnose, repair and remanufacture failed EV battery packs. The Green Award is a newly created category, and an international panel of judges chose the winner from 185 entries.
Autocraft’s workshops in Grantham, UK and Arnhem, the Netherlands repair between 300 and 400 battery packs a month for OEM customers. The company wants to expand into more European countries, including Germany, Spain and Italy, where it expects OEM demand for battery repair capacity to be concentrated.
Autocraft says failed packs have typically been replaced outright and very often sent for recycling, regardless of the fault, and that its commercial repair data shows most failures are localized at cell or module level. Replacing only the affected components can restore a pack to more than 90% of its original performance, according to the company.
The REVIVE service covers triage and workshop remanufacture as well as vehicle collection and return. Diagnosis runs on the company’s OptEVizer testing platform, which goes beyond the BMS and actively stresses the battery to find faults at cell level. The results are analyzed against an OptEVizer digital twin built from thousands of real-world test cycles and millions of individual data points, which Autocraft says yields a true, independent state of health.
Figures from the RECOVAS consortium, a UK government-backed collaboration of vehicle manufacturers, recyclers and academic partners, show that repairing an 82.5 kWh pack rather than replacing it avoids around 12 metric tons of CO₂.
“As the EV parc expands, so too will the number of battery failures, especially as packs age and degrade over time. Yet most batteries can be restored to optimal health, making repair the only logical way forward,” said Mike Hague-Morgan, Executive Director and Co-Owner of Autocraft Solutions Group.
“The next challenge is design,” said Hague-Morgan. “Manufacturers and legislators must work together to ensure future battery designs allow for effective repair, rather than making repair more difficult through increasingly complex architectures. If we do not act now, we risk locking in a throwaway model at exactly the point the volume is about to arrive.”
Source: Autocraft
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