The global automobile industry has established a long-term trend toward electrification technology, attracting industry chain manufacturers to rush to invest. The Asian battery manufacturers plan to respond a series of challenges like to balance of supply and demand on cellmaking and materials side, ensure the source of mineral and all materials and technical competition between Japanese, Korean and Chinese manufacturers. This presentation will provide an overview of the above cellmakers’ planning, especially cover both the technical comparison, market and product segmentation to show the future development in Asian xEV LIB Manufacturers.

As OEMs race to electrify fleets in time, Group14 co-founder and CTO Rick Costantino will discuss why a cornerstone of manufacturing and delivering enough batteries worldwide is localizing supply chains with drop-in factories. Pointing to global partnerships with the likes of Porsche AG, SK Inc. and others, Rick will pull the curtain back on how Group14 is scaling its footprint in the global market by means of its modular manufacturing approach, with strategic partnerships and sustainability top-of-mind.

One of the key problems of the new developing technologies, which aim for cost-efficiency and environmental turnover, is their scalability. Replacing traditional post-treatment methods during cathode manufacturing with a dry, gas-phase nanocoating process can significantly enhance process efficiency. Besides introducing our nanocoating technology as an affordable and greener alternative to existing methods, we will showcase our recent advances in scaling up the production capacity to an industrial scale.

Foreign metallic particles (FMPs) pose major safety risks to EV battery manufacturers. Particles as small as 100 microns can cause cell failure and thermal runaway, and can remain dormant in cells for hundreds of cycles before failure. We will discuss the physics of FMP contamination and thermal runaway, and strategies for risk mitigation.

The United States Department of Energy has recently released its vision for the future of batteries in the United States, titled The National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries. This document outlines the key areas of investment most critical to enabling a more secure and independent ecosystem around lithium-based batteries for the U.S. and is heavily influenced by the ideas of sustainable technological development. In this regard, earth-abundant cathode active materials are particularly attractive. This presentation will explore research and development efforts at Argonne National Laboratory focused on enabling new designs in high Mn, low Ni, Co-free cathodes towards diversifying the portfolio of viable materials for commercial applications.

The rapid growth of the LiB market and expectations for further energy density improvements are placing increasingly stringent demands on battery manufacturers. However, there is an overwhelming lack of mass production experience and knowledge on the production floor, and there are high hurdles to overcome in order to mass-produce innovative batteries as planned. Beff focuses on developing production technology and exploring new technologies to solve these challenges, providing solutions to shorten the development time for mass production and reduce costs. This presentation highlights our company’s approach.

Battery development can be accelerated if the products from intermediate process stages can be successfully characterised, and the results used to optimise the preceding steps. The talk will survey the options at each key stage, with greater details on some specific examples arising from our recent work on volumetric resistivity and coating morphology.

Our presentation summarizes the latest developments in LIB manufacturing, but sets priority on the future. In addition to possible innovations in battery materials or cell formats, we are focusing on production processes and therefore presenting the most important innovations of different processing technologies and giving a brief technology assessment of individual approaches. The technology assessment is interdisciplinary and ecological, economic and environmental aspects are taken into account.

Presentation focused on digital development and optimisation of battery materials and formulations. CPI utilises its automated formulation capability to rapidly screen novel solvents, binders, and active material combinations to down-select the optimal ratios for electrode coatings. Case studies relating to green solvent selection and use of process modelling and soft sensors will be presented.

There is a waiting list for almost every electric vehicle model. Automakers are racing to meet consumer demand and speed to market is key to their business success. This means more battery plants must be built just as fast. To meet this need, your planning team must understand and overcome the challenges of delivering a large-scale technically complex manufacturing complex.

BearLITE-processing allows strong improved performance, energy-reduced enhanced quality electrodes production. BearLITE-process is already widely proven for different water-based as well as solvent-based potential anode and cathode slurries.

Modern Gigafactories require modern solutions-- the digital transformation is becoming increasingly relevant for Europe's growing battery industry, because we get the chance to innovate and build new manufacturing plants with state-of-the-art Industry 4.0 technologies.