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Recap – Battery Cells & Systems Expo – Birmingham (United Kingdom) – June 29-30, 2022
Posted on 2022-07-03
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My take-away from the panel discussion on 'Solid State Powered Cars in 2024? When and How the Remaining Barriers to Commercial Production Could be Overcome' with
Richard Clark from Morgan Advanced Materials with Dr. Juyeon Park from the National Physical Laboratory UK is that the likelihood that NIO will proceed with
launching a high-range (about 600 miles / 1,000 km) semi-solid battery EV around Q4 / 2022 appears fairly high now. With only a few months remaining,
most of the preparation steps must have been completed already.
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Even if these semi-solid batteries still contain a bit of liquid (presumably 10-20 mass% in relation to solid electrolytes),
this would be a big step towards validating Li-ion conducting solids as key electrolyte components in EV batteries
(presumably coated oxide particles combined with polymers and salts, operated at room temperature).
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Uncertainties related to planned solid-state battery EV market launches for 2024 and later (many of them based on deploying sulfide electrolytes for
the first time) remain substantial as these timeframes implicate that multiple sequential steps have to be completed as planned prior to launch.
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This post was also published on LinkedIn.
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