Battery Development

The Fraunhofer Research Institution for Battery Cell Production FFB has carried out the first end-to-end cell production using exclusively European plant technology in Münster, Germany.

French chemical company Arkema and Chinese separator specialist SEMCORP intend to jointly accelerate the development of battery separators in the future.

POSCO Future M from South Korea and Factorial from the USA are planning to collaborate on the development of materials for solid-state batteries.

Hyundai is planning to complete construction of its own 818-million-dollar Future Mobility Battery Campus development center in South Korea in late 2026.

U.S.-based company W. L. Gore & Associates has opened a battery laboratory in Shanghai for accelerated development and testing of lithium-ion battery materials.

At its development center, GAC Group from China has commissioned a pilot production line for solid-state batteries which are intended to be used in electric vehicles.

SVolt Energy from China plans to begin series production of its first-generation semi-solid-state batteries in 2026. To this end, a 2.3 gigawatt-hour production line has already been set up.

The Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology (IWS) has launched its DRYplatform for industrial battery cell research in Dresden.

Samsung SDI, BMW Group, and Solid Power will be collaborating to evaluate the performance and safety of solid-state batteries for potential use in future BMW vehicles.

Sunwoda from China has presented a new generation of polymer-based solid-state batteries with an energy density of 400 watt-hours per kilogram.