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April 17, 2023

Navigating the Solid-State Battery Hype: An industry-driven assessment

The emergence of the Solid State Battery (SSB) technology has created much excitement in the battery market due to its potential to revolutionize energy storage. SSBs are often touted as having high energy and charging speed while enhancing safety and lower costs. The breakthrough of such a battery could reshuffle the competitive landscape.

March 17, 2023

A non-academic perspective on the future of lithium-based batteries

In the field of Li-Ion batteries, there is often a substantial divide between academic research and industrial market needs. This is in part driven by a lack of peer-reviewed publications from industry. In this webinar we present a non-academic view on applied research in LIB batteries to sharpen the focus and help bridge the gap between academic and industrial research. We focus our discussion on key metrics and challenges to be considered when developing new technologies in this industry.

October 26, 2021

What is the battery of the future?

Batteries are part of our future — there’s no doubt about that. But the question is, which battery technology are we talking about?

October 26, 2021

Lithium Iron Phosphate, the “new” kid on the battery block?!

Where is the battery market for alternative cell chemistries heading?

September 15, 2021

Battery shortage gloom and doom. Is lithium scarcity really our main concern?

The recent announcement of “The end of combustion engine car production” illustrates — again — that the future of the OEMs is electric! Battery-powered vehicles will be the next generation of passenger transport — like it or not, there is no way back. Going fully electric though has risen the concern around a potential battery shortage ahead. This affects not only the OEMs themselves, but the somewhat smaller manufacturers along the battery value chain, e.g.: the consumer goods, E-bike, or Power Tools sector. Plenty of fear-mongering statistics and articles are being released around lithium shortages driven by extreme demand and the likelihood of battery technologies becoming scarce.

June 16, 2021

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April 15, 2021

Carbon to Currency • Six companies transforming CO2 emissions into high-value chemicals

With the commercial landscape for carbon capture and reutilization largely limited to indoor agriculture and maintaining pressure in depleted oil wells, for now, carbon emissions generally remain a waste byproduct of energy consumption. Through the application of advanced electrochemical techniques however, a number of innovative companies are doing incredible work to repurpose CO2 emissions into high-value resources.

March 28, 2021

Vanadium redox flow market gaining momentum as China commissions new 100MW system

In 2019, VRB Energy, a Canadian battery manufacturer was commissioned to begin the first development phase of a (not so) small-scale 40 megawatt peak-load shifting power plant in the Hubei province of China. As the scene begins to change, VRB is now moving on to build a 100 megawatt system to be paired alongside a solar power station in the same province. As these new commissions ramp up, VRB is positioning to produce vanadium redox flow battery systems at the gigafactory scale in order to support China’s anticipated 1000 new gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030. This all comes two years after the announcement of Rongke Power being commissioned to build the world’s largest battery system, a 200 megawatt ‘peak-load shifting power plant’ in Dailan, China (Elektrek). By all accounts, the commercial opportunity for flow battery systems is gaining strong momentum, and China is leading the way.

November 17, 2020

Solid State Batteries — What Does It Take For A Breakthrough?

A start-up from Paris is working to help researchers make breakthroughs in solid-state battery development

February 15, 2021

Graphene aerogels could pave the way for high-performance lithium-sulfur batteries

With up to five times higher energy density, improved safety, and a lighter weight profile, lithium-sulfur batteries carry a number of advantages over conventional lithium-ion cells and look to be one of the most promising candidates for emerging battery technologies.

January 26, 2021

What are QuantumScape’s Anode-Free Batteries and how do they work?

With companies like Tesla and QuantumScape making major headlines in the race to produce the best new battery on the market, it’s hard not to be excited about the future of energy storage. One of the highlighted technologies starting to make its way out of the lab are so-called ‘anode-free’ cells, a potentially game changing alternative to the graphite anodes used in conventional lithium-ion batteries. But what are anode-free cells and how do they work?