How can data management accelerate battery development?

Let’s face it. Before the cost of an electric vehicle (EV) is not (significantly) lower than a car with an internal combustion engine (ICE), mass adoption will be tough. But, how do we bridge the significant cost gap between EVs and traditional cars with internal combustion engines (ICE)? 🚙

In Sphere-Energy's perspective, a significant portion of the solution resides in transforming battery data management.

Leveraging our extensive experience from numerous successful battery development projects and managing terabytes of data, we aim to elevate your battery data management capabilities. Our offerings range from tailored battery data strategies and fine-tuned LLMs (Large Language Models), to cutting-edge automated data quality and visualization algorithms.

Your thoughts? Let’s discuss how data management can accelerate your battery development. 🧠

Industry players along the battery value chain face the critical challenge of ensuring "true sustainability", now more than ever.

Our latest white paper looks into the different sustainability aspects of the battery value chain, examining the intricate landscape of evolving regulations, societal expectations, and emerging complexities.

The white paper also provides insights on how your organization can position itself as a leader in environmental responsibility within the battery industry. It outlines best practices and the right approach on implementing effective strategies.

Battery-Driven Organizational Transformation - Embracing the battery technology to drive innovation, sustainability, and strategic differentiation

The potential of batteries as the ultimate driver for modern company transformation. From smartphones to laptops to power drills or electric vehicles, the battery has emerged as the essential source of power across various industries and applications. This shift has opened up exciting new possibilities for product differentiation and market fit, ranging from enhanced performance to unique sustainability approaches, to brand reputation. The battery and its management systems, the BMS, have even prompted the rethinking of conventional business models, such as generating new services based on usage data such as e.g.: innovative fleet management.

However, while these opportunities hold immense potential, the fact that a complex technology - which the battery is - becomes one of the key components of your product, also brings disruptive forces that can greatly stress organizations. Companies must deal with a highly dynamic supply chain, scarce talent, tons of new regulations, and enormous pressure on the development timelines. In the battery field, you are always late - by default!

The magnitude of this stress on an organization, on all levels, can be compared to the transformative impact of digitalization, which has driven both triumphs and failures among companies over the last decades. The battery technology will play no less of a crucial role in the success for companies with a battery in their product. This stress can be felt throughout all levels of the organization, particularly affecting leadership and management.

The rapidly evolving and fiercely competitive battery market is putting immense pressure on battery manufacturers and related businesses to innovate and keep up with the latest developments - in the constant pursuit of the next breakthrough. But this booming market is also facing increasing headwinds from technological and market dynamics, such as fluctuating raw material prices, strong new competition, and rapidly advancing cell technology, making long-term planning challenging.

And as if the battery technology is not putting enough pressure on industry leaders, with Large Language Models (LLM), a new technological disruption emerges. The latest AI innovations, best known from ChatGPT, enable a new form of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) that allows machines to understand and interpret human language.

Has this technology actually the ability to help us overcome some of the biggest hurdles, currently holding us back from accessing new growth within the battery market? We interviewed thought leaders across the globe to find out…

After years of development, the first solid-state battery cells and prototypes are now making their way into the market. When, where and at which cost?

In this webinar, we will explore the current market news and the challenges of upscaling and industrializing a new battery technology. Additionally, we will discuss how R&D tools and protocols can facilitate more efficient transfers of technology from laboratory to the industrial scale.

Increasing heat generation in next generation battery technologies calls for efficient battery thermal management systems. Within this context thermal interface materials (TIM) have emerged as crucial add ons to dissipate and absorb heat during battery discharge and charge.

Despite the massive demand in high-performance TIMs for automotives, power tools and micro mobility applications alike, we have seen limited holistic benchmarks that support the selection of the right material.

Therefore we set out to analyze a variety of TIMs with regards to their enhancement of cell performance and important sustainability aspects, especially when it comes to disassembly.

This report offers a glimpse into our findings. Please reach out if you are interested in more detailed data points!

Can #GenerativeAI unlock new value for the battery sector? Sphere Energy says: “Absolutely!”

Battery related industries are under enormous pressure – constantly in need for innovation and efficiency, while navigating regulations and a volatile supply chain. But the real challenge is the limited availability of skilled professionals. But there is a new technology emerging, that we believe will help the industry to overcome this hurdle.

New #AI solutions, based on #LargeLanguageModels, have lately emerged as true game-changers. These intelligent systems hold the power to reshape the way we approach R&D, data management, and problem-solving.

As this young technology advances with great speed, early adoption is the key to sustained growth and market relevance. Read more about our thoughts on this technology and its relevance for the battery sector in our latest #WhitePaper. 🚀

Increasing heat generation in next generation battery technologies calls for efficient battery thermal management systems. Within this context thermal interface materials (TIM) have emerged as crucial add ons to dissipate and absorb heat during battery discharge and charge.

Despite the massive demand in high-performance TIMs for automotives, power tools and micro mobility applications alike, we have seen limited holistic benchmarks that support the selection of the right material.

Therefore we set out to analyze a variety of TIMs with regards to their enhancement of cell performance and important sustainability aspects, especially when it comes to disassembly.

This report offers a glimpse into our findings. Please reach out if you are interested in more detailed data points!

Check out the recording of our roundtable discussion with Mario Gehrlein (CEO, E-Lyte Innovations), Eric Kish (CEO, Nanoramic Labs), and Lukas Lutz (Co-Founder, Sphere Energy). They discuss how the EU's proposed PFAS regulations will impact the battery industry, as well as compliance strategies that the industry can adopt.

In the following, we want to look behind the scenes of glossy announcements and highlight critical success factors to understand why Gigafactory projects are such a challenging endeavor.

Exclusively download our paper now!
Navigating the Solid-State Battery Hype: An industry-driven assessment.

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

Slides for the webinar: A non-academic perspective on the future of lithium-based batteries