Batteries

Battery Manufacturing & Simulation Summit 2026

Understanding the elements that contribute to successful battery manufacturing is critical to the trajectory of next-gen mobility. As demands for battery solutions and production strategies evolve,...

Making EV Batteries Truly Sustainable: Where to Focus and What Industry Can Do

As the global electric vehicle fleet approaches 40 million vehicles, a critical question emerges: are we truly on the path to building a sustainable transportation future, and where should we focus our efforts to improve? The answer lies in how quickly we can move from today’s linear EV battery value chain into a truly circular system. Read on to learn more.

Express Delivery: Simulation App Speeds Up Electric Truck Battery Design

The custom simulation app developed by the LaserBATMAN consortium can be used to help produce more robust battery designs with ranges that can support highway travel over longer distances with fewer failures — all while promoting the use of green energy. Read on to learn more.

Quality Assurance: The Hidden Key to Battery Manufacturing

Ultimately, the success of the battery industry will not be determined solely by breakthroughs in chemistry or capacity. It will be judged by its ability to manufacture at scale, safely, sustainably, and affordably. And that only hinges on quality assurance. Read on to learn more.

Lithium Metal Battery Issue Might be Solved

KAIST announced that the research team led by Prof. Nam-Soon Choi has developed a technology that resolves the most critical challenge of lithium-metal batteries, “interfacial instability,” at the electronic structure level. Read on to learn more.

A New Electrolyte Points to Stronger, Safer Batteries

Researchers at Columbia Engineering have developed a new gel electrolyte that both improves the lifetime and safety of anode-free lithium batteries, an emerging battery architecture that could dramatically boost energy density while simplifying manufacturing. Read on to learn more.

Safer Batteries for Storing Energy at Massive Scale

Among the enduring challenges of storing energy is batteries that can hold large amounts of electricity for a long time. In addition to having a large capacity – potentially enough to power a neighborhood or small city for days or weeks – ideally, these batteries would be safe, affordable, and environmentally harmless. With an eye toward meeting those benchmarks, researchers at Case Western Reserve University are developing novel electrolytes—fluids that can conduct ions—for rechargeable flow batteries.

How Redwood Materials Prioritizes Battery Recycling Safety

Whether it’s a phone, mouse, e-bike, or EV, the batteries powering those devices at some point need to be collected, shipped, and recycled in a safe manner. Read on to learn what Redwood Materials is working on to help make this happen.

Researchers Turn Recovered Car Battery Acid and Plastic Waste Into Clean Hydrogen

Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste – such as drinks bottles, nylon textiles and polyurethane foams – using acid recovered from old car batteries, and converting it into clean hydrogen fuel and valuable industrial chemicals. Read on to learn more.

New Products

See the new products, including BYD's FLASH Charging, delivering up to 1500kW through a single connector, and the second generation of its Blade Battery; Sensata's FaultBreak contactor, a next-generation high-voltage switching and protection solution; and more.

Improved EV Battery Technology Will Outmatch Degradation From Climate Change

In a new study led by the University of Michigan, researchers have shown that batteries have gotten a lot better over the past several years. So much so, in fact, that their gains will more than offset their expected heat-related degradation on a warming planet. Read on to learn more.

A Proof‑of‑Concept Quantum Battery

In a new study, scientists have created a proof‑of‑concept quantum battery that can charge, store and discharge energy – the closest step yet toward a working quantum battery. Read on to learn more.

Porous Radical Organic Framework Improves Lithium-Sulfur Batteries

A team led by Professor Yan Lu, Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin, and Professor Arne Thomas, Technical University of Berlin, has developed a material that enhances the capacity and stability of lithium-sulfur batteries. Read on to learn more.

Products of Tomorrow

See the products of tomorrow, including a new material that can use sunlight and water to convert carbon dioxide into carbon monoxide; a novel design for solar-powered data centers that will orbit the Earth and could realistically scale to meet the growing demand for AI computing while reducing the environmental impact of data centers; and more.

The Rise of the Integrated Battery Large Model

A research team innovatively proposed the “Integrated Battery Large Model,” establishing the first AI-driven paradigm covering the entire lifecycle of the Li-ion battery industry, providing a novel technological path for the industry’s intelligent upgrade. Read on to learn more about the Battery Large Model system.

2026 Battery & Electrification Summit (Online)

As electrification reshapes how vehicles are designed, powered, and integrated into energy ecosystems, OEMs and design engineers are faced with complex design challenges.

DC Fast-Charging Adapters Are a Transition Strategy, Not a Stopgap

In the evolution of fast charging, success will not be measured solely by how quickly a new standard is adopted, but by how responsibly the industry manages the journey there. Read on to learn more.

New Products

See the new products, including Littelfuse's TPSMB Asymmetrical Series TVS Diodes; Siemens' SICHARGE FLEX product family, its next-generation EV distributed charging system; Renesas Electronics Corporation's expansion of its software-defined vehicle solution offerings centered around the fifth generation (Gen 5) R-Car family; and much more.

A Software-Defined Framework for Interpreting Impedance Signals at Scale

This article presents an impedance-native, software-defined diagnostic framework developed at Energsoft that shifts the focus from impedance measurement to impedance interpretation. Read on to learn more.

CES 2026: AI, EVs Need These Power Electronics Updates

Physical AI may have been the dominant keyword at CES 2026, but behind all the hype around that, there were still plenty of companies on hand in Las Vegas focused on less flashy headlines. Read on for some examples of companies working on the power electronics required behind the scenes to make our potential artificial intelligence future possible.

Breakthrough in Carbon-Based Battery Materials Improves Safety, Durability, and Power

This research demonstrates a new way to make carbon-based battery materials much safer, longer lasting, and more powerful by fundamentally redesigning how fullerene molecules are connected. Read on to learn more.

Electric Eel Biology Inspires Powerful Gel Battery

Power sources used in devices found in or around biological tissue must be flexible and non-toxic, while still powerful enough to support demanding technologies such as medical devices or soft robotics. To achieve this balance, researchers at Penn State are taking inspiration from electric eels. Read on to learn more.