® Expand - Top covers made of Ultramid® composite - Elastoflex® insulation pads - Elastan® filling material (side beam cavities) - HED™ cathode material, etc.   This is a next-generation battery that significantly improves safety, energy density, and charging efficiency. By using a solid electrolyte, "solid-state batteries" significantly reduce the risk of leakage and fire that is common in conventional lithium-ion batteries. In additi...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/06/19

tment by some Chinese battery manufacturers is facing competitive pressures from low prices and severe market contraction.   Improvements in battery structure can be divided into material improvements and structural improvements. In materials, changes are mainly seen in the material or form of the electrolyte, with battery and automobile manufacturers announcing new products such as condensed batteries and (semi-)solid-state batteries. Sodium io...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/06/12

ENERGY, based in Daejeon, South Korea, exhibited vanadium-ion batteries (VIB) at the booth of LBHunet Co., Ltd., its distributor for the Japanese market.   Vanadium-ion batteries are similar to vanadium redox flow batteries in that they use vanadium, but they do not require a structure to move the electrolyte from tank to tank. Vanadium is used in the ion battery, the same as lithium in lithium-ion batteries. Vanadium-ion batteries, although the...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/04/08

ately 820km on a hydrogen refill of about three minutes.   Toyota: Water electrolysis stack, hydrogen use Water electrolysis is the reverse reaction of fuel cells, extracting hydrogen from water through electrolysis, and can be configured by using the cells of a FC stack. The exhibit is a polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) water electrolysis cell that utilizes cells from the polymer electrolyte fuel cell (PEFC) installed in the Mirai, and 90% o...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/21

rand) Reference: MarkLines    Batteries   In November 2023, Changan announced its "Golden Shield” battery brand and its plans for the battery sector. The company plans to invest CNY 10 billion and launch eight types of battery cells that it has developed in-house by 2030, including liquid electrolyte types, semi-solid-state, and all-solid-state. Changan also plans to build a battery production capacity of more than 150GWh. In the area o...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2025/03/12

ears far exceeds that of domestic Chinese institutions. Toyota and Honda, in particular, maintain their technology leader edge. Many of the key technologies for solid-state batteries emerged more than a decade ago and have undergone a long period of development. In particular, the design of sulfide electrolyte materials and solid-state battery cells has entered a period of technological maturity, providing effective support for industrialization....

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/12/12

CAR Battery Day 2024 Trends and impacts on EV battery technology Summary BASF Schwarzheide GmbH Factory Tour (BASF) High performance, resilient and sustainable graphite production (Vianode) Electrolyte research & production in Germany (E-Lyte Innovations) The future of battery cell production - innovative and European ecosystem (EDAG Group) Official event logo (CAR Battery Day 2024, organized by CAR - Center Automotive Research, Duisburg/L...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/12/10

s at room temperature, and 1,800 cycles at high temperatures. According to Gotion, the high energy density of the Astroinno cell enables a battery pack to provide a 1,000-km range without the use of NMC materials. Technologies such as co-precipitation, doping encapsulation, new granulation, and new electrolyte additives all contribute to Astroinno cell performance. Gotion battery cell portfolio sample Astroinno L600 LMFP battery cell  ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/11/12

droxide and lithium carbonate refining technology, BMW i Ventures Livent Corporation of the U.S. March 2021, Lithium supply contract, mining in Australia and Argentina Next-generation battery Solid Power, Inc. of the U.S. December 2022, Joint development of all-solid-state batteries and sulfide electrolytes LION E-Mobility of Switzerland May 2022, Contracts for high-voltage battery system products and production ONE (Our Next Energy) of t...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/10/18

ring on batteries, to in-house production, production of finished vehicles, secondary use of batteries, and recycling.     In April 2022, Honda announced that it would invest JPY 5 trillion in electrification and software by 2030, on the premise of collaborating with external partners for liquid electrolyte lithium-ion batteries. However, it later changed its policy to aim for a vertically integrated model and revised its planned investment am...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/23

citors and the Superbattery will be manufactured, in Markranstädt near Leipzig [2]. It will continue to invest in its site in Toulouse in France where a Superbattery gigafactory is being built.   The Superbattery has the same structure as a conventional battery cell with an anode, a cathode and electrolyte. The cathode is made of a mixture of conductive metals and special active materials which, according to the company, result in extremely f...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/22

cle Seat Materials (Feb. 2024)Logic Semiconductors for Automotive ECUs (Dec. 2023)Standards and SEP surveys in the field of 5G communications (Oct. 2023)Technical Trends in E/E Architecture (Sep. 2023)     In the study of batteries, all-solid-state batteries, in which all components including the electrolyte are made of solid materials, are considered important as a technology that solves the problems caused by the electrolytes of existing lith...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/16

principle, solid-state batteries are essentially the same as liquid batteries, with charging and discharging achieved through the absorption or release of lithium ions between the positive and negative electrodes, i.e., Rocking chair batteries (RCBs). The differences between the two are: (1) solid electrolytes replace liquid electrolytes and separators, with the electrolyte providing a place for lithium ions to move; (2) the structural change fr...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/16

as CMC (carboxymethyl cellulose). In addition, they exhibit exceptional processability and superior coating behavior, as well as excellent mechanics and electrochemical performance.   OPPANOL® is a highly versatile polyisobutylene, which chemical inertness ensures that it does not react with the electrolyte or other battery components, thus preventing the formation of unwanted by-products.   High molecular weight OPPANOL® exhibits superior e...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/13

s, technology introductions, project cooperation, and more. Next generation solid-state battery Dongfeng Motor unveiled its next-generation solid-state battery at the Auto China 2024 motor show in Beijing. It uses a highly stable modified lithium metal anode and a new in-situ solidified composite electrolyte. The solid-state cell energy density reaches over 405Wh/kg. Partnerships for smart technology (DJI/Wuhan Guide Infrared Co., Ltd.) On Ap...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/08/01

he world's first lithium iron phosphate battery capable of 4C quick charging and has a cruising capacity of 700km. Under normal temperatures, the battery can provide travel of 400km on a 10-minute charge.   In April 2023, condensed batteries were exhibited at the Auto Shanghai 2023 motor show. The electrolyte of the condensed battery is in gel form rather than the conventional liquid form, and the maximum energy density reaches 500Wh/kg. They ar...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/25

arget (7kW/kg) for 2035. The system power density has been improved to 4.4kW/kg. "Mofang” battery system The solid-state battery is designed in-house and jointly researched and developed. This is a new solid-state battery based on a technological line of polymer and inorganic compound composite electrolytes that is scheduled to be mass-produced in 2026. It has an energy density of over 400Wh/kg, a volumetric energy density of over 820Wh/L, a ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/07/03

n annual production capacity of 150,000 tons of lithium iron phosphate and 70,000 tons of cobalt-free cathode materials in the first phase. In the second phase, the company will build an annual production capacity of 150,000 tons of iron phosphate battery cathode material precursors, 50,000 tons of electrolyte, and a line for the recovery and disassembly of 20,000 tons of batteries. In the third phase, the company plans to build a 30GWh drive bat...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/05/02

such as ↔ in the figure.   The reason why battery characteristics change significantly with temperature is due to electrochemical reactions inside the cell, and the main reasons cited are as follows: Li-ion migration speed decreases at low temperatures (reduced battery input/output) Accelerated electrolyte decomposition at high temperatures (battery capacity decrease)   For the battery internal temperature model, which is the objective of t...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/23

Toshiba's SCiB.   The 48V battery pack for MHEVs (mild hybrids) incorporates LTO-type lithium-ion battery cells, with a maximum discharge current of 300A and a capacity of 0.5 kWh. LTO type lithium-ion battery 48V battery pack for MHEVs   Niterra: Lithium-ion capacitor, LLZ oxide solid electrolyte   Niterra Co., Ltd. (Niterra Group, formerly NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.) exhibited lithium-ion capacitors that can operate in harsh environ...

Market & Tech Reports  Updated at: 2024/04/05