Solid State Batteries:
Solid state battery markets at $810 million in 2021are expected to reach $466 billion by 2028. The automotive markets are driven primarily by adoption in the EV. Solid-state battery markets occur when vehicle companies build out systems that enable the shift to new technologies. As they build new factories, they are implementing solid state battery capability to help reduce labor costs in manufacturing, permit faster charging, driving longer on a single charge, and generally improving the efficiency of driving an EV. Energy storage is a big part of the market. EVs need to be charged and recharged from excess renewable energy generated from wind and solar.
There is an energy industry consensus that electric EV Vehicles will replace gas powered EV Vehicles in the very near future
Japan's Toyota Motor Corp. is leading the pack in the development of a hybrid-solid-state battery. With more than 1,000 battery-related patents, Toyota has implemented a prototype EV equipped with hybrid solid-state battery technology.
Sumitomo Electric Industries has developed an all-solid-state lithium battery using a sulfide thin-film electrolyte as its separator for the powder composite electrode. Sumitomo Electric Industries battery maintained its performance during 500 cycles of charging and discharging.
The prototype all-solid battery has a new structure. An all-solid lithium-ion secondary battery consists of a sulfide-based thin film electrolyte and pellet-type electrodes. The safety of lithium-ion batteries is significantly increased by replacing the electrolyte solutions with flame-retardant solid electrolytes.
This battery has high performance characterized by a high discharge rate and excellent high-temperature cycle property. The battery showed a discharge capability of 10 C for one minute and capacity maintenance rates of 90% after 1500 cycles at 60˚C, 90% after 500 cycles at 80˚C, and 70% after 500 cycles at 150˚C. The thin film electrolyte has improved both the discharge rate and high-temperature cycle performance. This battery has a high thermal stability from room temperature to 360˚C (3) and operates with Li2S-P2S5 sulfide solid electrolytes that have a high Solid-State conductivity of at least 1×10-3 S/cm at room temperature. The all-solid battery using no organic electrolyte solution has problems as follows:
Solid-State Battery Market Driving Forces
Solid-state batteries (ASSB) replace the liquid electrolyte in a conventional lithium-ion battery with a highly stable solid ion-conducting material. The need to store the energy generated by solar and wind energy is the driving force for implementing solid-state batteries. Lithium-ion batteries use combustible organic electrolyte solutions, have ignition and explosion risks.
Figure 1. Renewable Energy Storage Metrics
Source: Ford Motor Company. To address this ignition and explosion risk problem, efforts are underway to significantly increase the safety of lithium-ion batteries by replacing the electrolyte solutions with flame-retardant electrolytes. The all-solid lithium secondary battery is receiving particular attention as a next-generation rechargeable battery, Figure 2. Automotive Company Hybrid Solid-State Battery Market Driving Forces Compete in EV market with units better than conventional lithium-ion battery Implement highly scalable EV battery manufacturing process Implement EV battery manufacturing process with highly stable conducting material Store the energy generated by solar and wind energy Implement systemic home base storage systems Replace combustible organic electrolyte solutions Decrease spontaneous ignition and explosion risks Replace the electrolyte solutions with flame-retardant electrolytes A next-generation rechargeable battery Source: WinterGreen Research, Inc. Figure 3. Selected Solid-State Battery Major Market Participants
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Amperex Technology Ltd. (CATL)
CATL Initial Public Offering in Shenzhen
Amprius Technologies Corporate Headquarters in Fremont, California
Apple
Aurora
Northvolt
Galp
BASF
Bettergy
BOAO Navigator Battery Holding
Bolloré
Bolloré Group Revenue
Bolloré BlueCar
Autolib Blue Solutions
Blue Solutions Solid State Battery Development
Solid State Battery Production Capacity
Autolib Red Car Solutions
Bollore Energy Storage Ringo Project by RTE
BMW
Bosch
BYD
California Energy Commission
Cymbet
Dyson / Sakti3
Enevate
EV Battery Equivalent of a Gas Tank. Provides the Vehicle Powertrain
Replace Cars That Run on Fossil Fuels with EVs
Extreme Fast Charging Technology Changes Everything
Enovate
Factorial Energy
Factorial’s new Solid-State EV Battery
Ford
FREYR Battery
Alussa Energy
FREYR A/S
Alussa Energy Acquisition Corp.
Front Edge Technology
Front Edge Technology Technical Information
General Motors Collaborating with LG Energy Solution on Solid State Batteries
GM Ultium Lithium-Ion Battery
Honda
Hyundai
Ilika
Ion Storage Systems
Ionic
Ionic Materials Liquid Crystal Polymer
Jiawei
Johnson Battery Technologies
LG
Lishen
Mercedes-Benz
MIT
Mitsui Kinzoku
Mobis Energy
Mullen Automotive
Nissan
Northvolt
Northvolt / Cuberg
Panasonic
Panasonic Leader in Lithium-Ion Battery Market by Virtue of Its Position as A Supplier to Tesla
Pellion
PolyPlus
PolyPlus Battery Company Joint Development Agreements, One with SK Innovation Co. Ltd.
ProLogium
ProLogium and Mercedes-Benz Technology Cooperation Agreement to Develop Solid-State Battery Cells for Electric Vehicles
ProLogium and Mercedes-Benz Agreed on Milestones
Softbank Backs ProLogium
ProLogium Major Product Pipelines
ProLogium Production Capacity Able to Meet Demand for Solid-State Batteries
QuantumScape
Riverstone Holdings’ Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation III
Sony
Total / Saft
Sakti3
Samsung
SK Innovation
Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric Positions to Implement Electrification of Society At Large
Seeo
Sila Nanotechnologies and Enivate
Sion Power
Sion Power Chemically Stable Ceramic Barriers
SK Innovation
SolidEnergy Systems
Solid Powe
Solid Power Technology
Solid Power Teaming with Ford and BMW
Samsung and Hyundai / Solid Power
Stanford TomKat Center
Sumitomo Electric Industries
SUNY
Tesla
Tesla Canada Industrial Research Chair, Dalhousie University
Thermo Scientific
Thermo Scientific Medical Spectrometers
Total Energies / Saft
Toyota
US Department of Energy
US Military
LG / University of California at San Diego
LG Silicon Anodes
Silicon As an Anode to Replace Graphite
University of Illinois at Urbana
University of Texas All-Solid-State Lithium-Ion Battery Cell
Volkswagen Group
Wildcat Discovery Technologies
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