Autocraft's REVIVE Battery Repair Workshops Take Home Automechanika Green Award

Battery failure doesn’t have to mean the scrapyard. Autocraft Solutions Group, a UK-based specialist in EV battery repair and remanufacturing, has earned the Green Award at the 2026 Automechanika Frankfurt Innovation Awards for its REVIVE workshops. The accolade, a brand-new category at the fair, was decided by an international jury that sifted through 185 entries before landing on Autocraft.

Operating out of Grantham in the UK and Arnhem in the Netherlands, the REVIVE facilities handle roughly 300 to 400 battery packs every month on behalf of OEM clients. Autocraft now has its sights set on Germany, Spain and Italy, betting that demand for battery repair capacity will cluster in those markets. According to the company, the industry’s default response to a failed pack has long been wholesale replacement and, too often, recycling — even when the defect is minor. Its workshop data tells a different story: most failures trace back to a single cell or module, and swapping out only the faulty part can bring a pack back to over 90% of its original capability.

At the heart of the service is OptEVizer, Autocraft’s testing platform, which pushes the battery harder than a standard BMS check by actively stressing it to uncover cell-level problems. Findings are then compared against a digital twin assembled from thousands of real-world test cycles and millions of data points, producing what the firm calls a genuine, independent state of health. The wider REVIVE offering also takes care of vehicle pickup and return alongside triage and remanufacturing. Separate figures from the RECOVAS consortium — a UK government-backed group of automakers, recyclers and academics — indicate that fixing an 82.5 kWh pack instead of replacing it prevents around 12 metric tons of CO₂ emissions.

“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. Looking ahead, he flagged design as the next hurdle, urging manufacturers and legislators to collaborate so that future batteries are built with repair in mind instead of being made harder to service through ever more complex architectures. Acting now matters, he warned, or the industry risks cementing a throwaway model just as volumes are about to surge.