Toyota Motor Corporation and Sumitomo Metal Mining have signed an agreement to jointly develop and subsequently mass-produce cathode materials for solid-state batteries.

Renault subsidiary Ampere has opened the Battery Cell Innovation Laboratory near Paris, with more than 120 pieces of equipment and a 600-square-meter drying room.

PEM of RWTH Aachen University is working on an industrially viable process for liquid coating of lithium metal anodes as part of the EXIST research transfer project “LIMA.”