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Central Europe becomes the EU’s e-car battery supplier
15/02/2021
In late 2020, the value of export of lithium-ion batteries reached some €400M a month, and they now account for as much as 2 percent of all Poland’s exports. That amounts to almost a third of European demand for electric vehicle batteries. “Poland is very high up in the supply chain for the electric car sector. It […]
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Commission approves €2.9 billion public support by twelve Member States for a second pan-European research and innovation project along the entire battery value chain
15/02/2021
The Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a second Important Project of Common European Interest (“IPCEI”) to support research and innovation in the battery value chain. The project, called “European Battery Innovation” was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The twelve Member States […]
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Advanced technologies for industry. Product watch : solid-state-lithium-ion-batteries for electric vehicles
18/01/2021
Since the global demand for high-energy and high-power energy storage devices increased, lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries have emerged as the dominating energy storage solution for portable electronics and electric vehicles. With the objective of realising the green mobility transition and overcoming concerns about electric vehicles, e.g. with regards to their range, new technologies for lithium-ion-batteries are developed. […]
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Hyperdrive Innovation and Hitachi Rail to develop battery tech for trains
08/07/2020
+ Read moreHyperdrive Innovation and Hitachi Rail are to develop battery packs to power trains and create a battery hub in the North East of England Hitachi Rail analysis estimates the potential market for Hyperdrive and Hitachi’s battery technology is over 400 trains. Powering up a British battery boom Hitachi starts work on all-electric 803s for East […]
OPEN INNOVATION CHALLENGE
07/07/2020
+ Read moreOpen innovation Challenge is organized in by the Innovation Network for Advanced Materials (INAM) THE BRIEF There is currently no battery on the market that can do justice to a cordless hair dryer. Either the drying performance is too low or the play time is too short to dry the hair completely. Therefore, the challenge is […]
Clean energy progress after the Covid-19 crisis will need reliable supplies of critical minerals
20/05/2020
+ Read moreMinerals have played a critical role in the rise of many of the clean energy technologies that are widely used today – from wind turbines and solar panels to electric vehicles. But ensuring that these and other key technologies can draw on sufficient mineral supplies to support the acceleration of energy transitions around the world […]
EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES ON BATTERIES OF THE FUTURE
20/05/2020
+ Read moreThe Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage Ulm-Karlsruhe (CELEST) will host its first web-based scientific conference on May 25-26 to discuss perspectives for future batteries in Europe. May 25-26 2020: 1st Web Conference on European perspectives on batteries of the future (BATTERY 2030+) May 25, 13:00 – 17:10May 26, 09:00 – 12:10The conference will be a […]
Challenges and perspectives for new material solutions in batteries
20/04/2020
+ Read moreThis scientific article published by Vittorio Pellegrini Silvia Bodoardo, Daniel Brandell, Kristina Edström underlines the main challenges for future research in batteries. It addresses particularly the urgent needs of developing new environmentally-friendly material solutions to enhance the energy density and safety of these storage devices. This will require embracing a multidisciplinary approach encompassing traditional electrochemistry […]
Solid‐electrolyte Interphase at Positive Electrodes in High‐Energy Li‐Ion Batteries: Current Understanding and Analytical Tools
20/04/2020
+ Read moreThe following article is published by Giorgia Zampardi and Fabio La Mantia in Chemestry Europe – The European Chemical Societies Publishing. The operating potentials of the Li‐ion batteries active materials usually exceed the stability window of the electrolyte, leading to its irreversible reduction or oxidation. Often, as an effect of these side reactions, a surface […]
SAVE THE DATE ! SERMA Battery Seminar 13-14 OCTOBER 2020
20/04/2020
+ Read moreThe seminar program focuses on current and future needs in terms of portable and stationary electrochemical energy sources and highlights the latest technological developments. Highlights of the agenda: primary, rechargeable, reserve batteries, fuel cells, ultra-capacitor systems and their accessories. The seminar agenda involves discussions about the typical aspects of the life cycle of the design […]
Million-Mile Battery to Revolutionize Electric Vehicles
20/04/2020
+ Read moreMore efficient, longer-lasting batteries are needed to ensure the future of the electric vehicle market. Thanks to Jeff R. Dahn and his Dalhousie University research team, a “million-mile battery” may soon be a reality. Dahn is Tesla’s battery research partner. In “A Wide Range of Testing Results on an Excellent Lithium-Ion Cell Chemistry to be […]
