SK On, the world’s fifth largest EV battery manufacturer and supplier of EV batteries to OEMs such as Hyundai, Kia, Ford, Volkswagen, and Mercedes-Benz, announced its latest research and development (R&D) achievements on all-solid-state batteries (ASSBs). SK On said that the findings from its ASSB research projects, conducted in collaboration... Read more →

QuantumScape Corporation, a leader in solid-state lithium-metal battery technology, announced that next-generation heat treatment equipment for its separator production process, Cobra, has been developed, delivered, installed and released for initial separator processing. Achieving this milestone on schedule puts the company on track to deliver higher-volume samples of its first planned... Read more →

Honda Motor unveiled the demonstration production line for all-solid-state batteries, which is being developed independently by Honda toward mass production. The line was constructed on the property of Honda R&D Co., Ltd. (Sakura), located in Sakura City, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. While conducting technical verification to establish a mass production process... Read more →

QuantumScape (QS) has begun producing and shipping low volume B-sample cells for automotive customer testing—the company’s most important 2024 goal. These B-samples of QuantumScape’s first planned product, QSE-5, feature energy density of more than 800 Wh/L and are capable of fast charging from 10-80% in less than 15 minutes. To... Read more →

Taking the next step to advance the application of solid-state battery technology in EVs, Stellantis is incorporating Factorial’s solid-state batteries into a demonstration fleet of all-new Dodge Charger Daytona vehicles based on the STLA Large platform. This initiative builds upon the $75-million investment Stellantis made in Factorial in 2021. These... Read more →

By fusing together a pair of contorted molecular structures, Cornell researchers createda porous crystal that can uptake lithium-ion electrolytes and transport them smoothly via one-dimensional nanochannels—a design that could lead to safer solid-state lithium-ion batteries. A paper on the work is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.... Read more →

Maxell, Ltd. announced in its new medium-term management plan “MEX26” (Maximum Excellence 2026) that it will accelerate the development of all-solid-state batteries as core of new business toward 2027. Maxell, whose name derives from the phrase “Maximum Capacity Dry Cell”, started business as a manufacturer of battery and magnetic tape... Read more →

Piersica has been awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Small Business Innovation Research/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) Programs Phase II award for $1 million. The NSF grant is designed to support the research and development of a new class of highly conductive solid polymer separator membranes compatible with high-voltage cathodes.... Read more →

Solid Power, a developer of solid-state battery technology, was selected by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Manufacturing and Energy Supply Chains (MESC) to begin award negotiations for up to $50 million in federal funding under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. With this project, Solid Power intends to install... Read more →

Solid-state battery technology company Factorial Inc. introduced Solstice, an all-solid-state battery set to achieve an energy density of up to 450Wh/kg. Solstice incorporates a novel dry cathode design for more efficient and sustainable production. Solstice compliments Factorial’s FEST (Factorial Electrolyte System Technology) for automotive and other electric mobility applications while... Read more →

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a thin, flexible, solid-state electrolyte (SSE) that may double energy storage for next-gen electric vehicles, cell phones, laptops and other devices. The sheets may allow scalable production of future solid-state batteries with higher energy density electrodes. The work, published in ACS Energy... Read more →

Researchers at the Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology (QIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with collaborators from leading international institutions, have introduced an innovative cathode homogenization strategy for all-solid-state lithium batteries (ASLBs). This new approach, detailed in apaper in Nature Energy, significantly improves the cycle life... Read more →

ION Storage Systems (ION), a Maryland-based manufacturer of safe, high energy density, fast charging solid-state batteries (SSB), announced a major milestone on the path to commercialization by achieving 800 cycles in its SSB cells. ION’s cell cycles without compression or volume change, traditionally a major impediment to SSB adoption. This... Read more →

Volkswagen Group’s battery company PowerCo and QuantumScape have entered into an agreement to industrialize QuantumScape’s next-generation solid-state lithium-metal battery technology. Upon satisfactory technical progress and certain royalty payments, QuantumScape will grant PowerCo the license to mass produce battery cells based on QuantumScape’s technology platform. Under the non-exclusive license, PowerCo can... Read more →

Ilika, a developer of solid-state battery technology (earlier post), has shipped its first batch of prototype Goliath batteries for customer testing by a tier 1 automotive company. In May 2024, Ilika announced it had commenced in-house testing of its P1 Goliath prototype batteries, in a customer-sponsored program and the first... Read more →

Ion Storage Systems (ION), a Maryland-based manufacturer of safe, high-energy density, fast-charging solid-state batteries (SSBs), will collaborate with Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest ceramics, glass and material suppliers and KLA, a leader in semiconductor process and quality control, to accelerate the commercialization of ION’s high-performing, anodeless SSB. The ARPA-E... Read more →

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $20 million to Ion Storage Systems to support the scale-up of domestic manufacturing of next-generation solid-state lithium-metal batteries and to accelerate commercialization of the technology into the electric vehicle market. Ion is commercializing next-generation, high-power-density, solid-state lithium-metal batteries, based on ceramic electrolyte... Read more →

Factorial delivered B-samples of its 106+Ah lithium-metal solid-state battery cells to Mercedes-Benz as part of their ongoing joint development agreement. This milestone marks the first announced B-sample shipment of solid-state battery cells to a global automotive OEM, showcasing progress toward product maturity and the series production of passenger EVs equipped... Read more →

Sakuu, a provider of commercial-scale equipment and technologies to the battery manufacturing industry, has manufactured its high-energy, high-power Li-Metal Cypress battery cell using a fully dry manufacturing process. Sakuu has overcome the industry known challenges of Li-Metal anode chemistries in both wet and dry electrode manufacturing, as shown by its... Read more →

Factorial, a developer of solid-state battery technology for electric vehicle (EV) applications, and LG Chem, a global leader in battery materials, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to accelerate the development of solid-state battery materials. The agreement aims to strengthen cooperation in the field of next-generation battery materials and secure... Read more →

The inauguration of E-Cells Lab, a research center for electrochemistry within the University of Bologna, was held earlier this month. The laboratory, which was set up under the university’s scientific direction, aims to build knowledge of the materials, and the chemical and physical properties, of lithium cells. Ferrari is promoting... Read more →

QuantumScape Corporation, a developer of next-generation solid-state lithium-metal battery technology, has started customer shipments of Alpha-2 prototype battery cells, fulfilling a goal for 2024. Alpha-2 prototypes are a significant milestone on the roadmap to deliver QSE-5, QuantumScape’s first planned commercial product. QuantumScape entered the automotive qualification process in December 2022... Read more →

Researchers in Korea have a developed novel, scalable, and cost-efficient wet synthesis approach to produce superionic conductive sulfide-based solid electrolytes (SEs). This method uses careful regulation of the nucleation rate and strategic substitution of elements to control particle size and enhance ionic conductivity. The resultant Li5.5PS4.5Cl1.5 SEs synthesized show a... Read more →

At InterBattery 2024 in Korea, Samsung SDI unveiled a suite of “super-gap” battery technologies encompassing fast charging and ultra-long life as well as its mass-production readiness roadmap for its all solid-state battery (ASSB), a beyond lithium-ion battery solution with a targeted top energy density of 900Wh/L. The ASSB roadmap illustrates... Read more →

A team led by engineers at the University of California San Diego developed a new cathode material for solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries that is electrically conductive and structurally healable—features that overcome the limitations of these batteries’ current cathodes. The work was published in the journal Nature. Solid-state Li–S batteries (SSLSBs) are... Read more →

ION Storage Systems (ION), a Maryland-based manufacturer of safe, high energy density, fast-charging solid-state batteries (SSBs) (earlier post) announced that its anodeless and compressionless SSB achieved a key customer—and industry—threshold with its first market deployment with the US military. ION’s SSB successfully achieved and exceeded 125 cycles with less than... Read more →

In an open-access paper in the journal ChemSusChem, a team at Penn State reports using cold sintering to reprocess solid-state composite electrolytes—specifically Mg- and Sr-doped Li7La3Zr2O12 with polypropylene carbonate (PPC) and lithium perchlorate (LLZO–PPC–LiClO4). The low sintering temperature allows co-sintering of ceramics, polymers and lithium salts, leading to re-densification of... Read more →

Solid Power, a developer of solid-state battery technology, has deepened its partnership with SK On with three new agreements: a research and development license; a line installation arrangement; and an electrolyte supply agreement. Together, the agreements expand Solid Power’s presence in Korea and strengthen the existing relationship between Solid Power... Read more →

Solid-state battery company QuantumScape reported that its solid-state cell has significantly exceeded the requirements in the A-sample test and successfully completed more than 1,000 charging cycles. Volkswagen subsidiaty PowerCo confirmed the results. For an electric car with a WLTP range of 500-600 kilometers, this corresponds to a total mileage of... Read more →

NOVA, the venture arm of Saint-Gobain, one of the world’s largest building materials companies and manufacturer of innovative material solutions, recently invested in solid-state Li-metal battery company ION Storage Systems to expand the relationship between Saint-Gobain Ceramics and ION as they work together on bringing an innovative approach for battery... Read more →

Blue Current, a manufacturer of silicon elastic composite solid-state batteries (earlier post), announced a series of technical achievements, expanded partner engagements, and funding. Blue Current continues to carefully expand its investment and industry partnerships. During 2023, new and existing investors, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), Piedmont Capital, and Umicore, began or... Read more →

Solid Power, a developer of solid-state battery technology, has shipped its first A-sample cells to enter automotive qualification. It is a reflection of our team’s strong execution that we produced and delivered our first A Sample EV cells for BMW a little over a week ago, marking a major milestone... Read more →

QuantumScape (QS) announced that its top-performing 24-layer A0 prototype cell achieved 1,000+ full cycle equivalents with more than 95% discharge energy retention in one of its prospective customer’s battery testing labs. QuantumScape said that it is not aware of any automotive-format lithium-metal battery that has shown such high discharge energy... Read more →

Factorial announced the opening of its new battery manufacturing facility in the Boston suburb of Methuen, Mass. The facility represents a significant step in scaling up the production of Factorial’s solid-state battery technology for EVs. The new facility represents a $50-million investment and is expected to create more than 150... Read more →

A team of researchers from the US and Canada have developed a new lithium-based solid-state electrolyte (SSE) material (Li9N2Cl3) that demonstrates excellent lithium compatibility and atmospheric stability and that enables high–areal capacity, long-lasting all–solid-state lithium metal batteries. An open-access paper on the work is published in Science Advances. The Li9N2Cl3... Read more →

Solid electrolytes with high lithium-ion conductivity can be designed for millimeter-thick battery electrodes by increasing the complexity of their composite superionic crystals, report researchers from Tokyo Tech. This new design rule enables the synthesis of high-entropy active materials while preserving their superionic conduction. As the world transitions towards a greener... Read more →

Idemitsu Kosan and Toyota Motor have entered into an agreement to work together in developing mass production technology of solid electrolytes, improving productivity and establishment a supply chain, to achieve the mass production of all-solid-state batteries for battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Through this collaboration, the two companies seek to ensure... Read more →

Ilika, a developer of solid-state battery (SSB) technology, is leading a 16-month, £2.7-million (US$3.3-million) Automotive Transformation Fund (ATF) collaboration, partnering with Mpac Group plc (Mpac) and the UK Battery Industrialization Centre (UKBIC). Codenamed SiSTEM and launched 1 October 2023, the project will develop a 1.5MWh SSB assembly line capable of... Read more →

A team led by researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed a framework for designing solid-state batteries (SSBs) with mechanics in mind. Their paper is published in Science. One of the critical aspects of SSBs is the stress response of their microstructure to dimensional... Read more →

A joint research team from South Korea’s Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST) and the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) developed a dry pre-lithiation strategy for the graphite/silicon-based diffusion-dependent electrodes (DDEs) by simply introducing Li metal powder in DDE. The added Li metal powder uniformly and continuously... Read more →

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will award a total of $16 million to five projects to advance domestic capabilities in solid-state and flow battery manufacturing. Each project represents a collaborative effort between DOE National Laboratories and industry partners to expedite the... Read more →

Sakuu Corporation announced some performance milestones for its licensable Cypress Li-Metal battery cell chemistry (earlier post) designed to integrate seamlessly into today’s roll-to-roll battery manufacturing process: 750–950 Wh/l Energy Density of active cell area 260+ Wh/kg Specific Energy 792 W/kg Specific Power (@ 3C) 3C Sustained Discharge, 10C Peak, with... Read more →

Taiwan-based ProLogium, a developer and manufacturer of next-generation EV solid-state battery solutions selected France as the location for its first large-scale solid-state battery manufacturing plant outside Asia. The European Commission has now given a green light to a €1.5-billion grant from the French government to support ProLogium’s project. (Earlier post.)... Read more →

Lithium-metal solid-state battery company QuantumScape (QS) announced that it is working closely with a prospective launch customer in the automotive sector for the first commercial QS product. QS previously disclosed customer sampling agreements with six automakers and a stationary storage provider as well as product tests with some of the... Read more →

MAHLE and the Taiwan-based battery manufacturer ProLogium have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for developing and evaluating thermal management solutions for next generation solid-state batteries. Solid-state cells are expected to have significant advantages in the future in terms of safety and energy density, which contribute to higher driving ranges and... Read more →

Hyundai Motor Group announced the inauguration of its Joint Battery Research Center with Seoul National University (SNU). This collaborative effort between the Group and SNU aims to advance battery technologies and foster industry-academia cooperation to establish global leadership in the battery field. The Joint Battery Research Center began to take... Read more →

A team of researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, led by Matthew McDowell, associate professor in the George W. Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Materials Science and Engineering, is using an aluminum-foil-based anode in a solid-state Li-ion battery to create batteries with higher energy density... Read more →

Nissan’s Yokohama Plant produced its 40 millionth engine in June. The Yokohama Plant commenced operations in 1935, two years after Nissan’s founding. It built its 10 millionth engine in 1976, its 20 millionth in 1986 and its 30 millionth in 1997. A number of engines made by the Yokohama Plant... Read more →

Researchers from Technische Universität Darmstadt, Universität Stuttgart, Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, and Universität des Saarlandes have developed a two-step recycling approach for all-solid-state Li-ion batteries (lithium ASSBs). The process, which uses citric acid as the leaching agent to separate and recover the individual components, is presented in an open-access paper in the... Read more →

Umicore inaugurated one of the world’s largest and most advanced solid-state battery material prototyping facilities in Olen, Belgium, which will expand and accelerate its innovation and technology development. The initiative acquired strong research expertise with the support of the Flemish government (VLAIO - Agentschap Innoveren & Ondernemen). Solid-state batteries are... Read more →