The roadmap suggests research actions to radically transform the way we discover, develop, and design ultra-high-performance, durable, safe, sustainable, and affordable batteries for use in real applications. This is a collective European research effort to support the urgent need to establish battery cell manufacturing in Europe.
This roadmap presents the transformational research ideas proposed by “BATTERY 2030+,” the European large-scale research initiative for future battery chemistries. A “chemistry-neutral” roadmap to advance battery research, particularly at low technology readiness levels, is outlined, with a time horizon of more than ten years.
Start integrating design for sustainability and dismantling, develop a system for data collection and analysis, start-to-end traceability, develop technologies for battery pack/module sorting and reuse/repurposing, and start developing the automated disassembly of battery cells. Develop new tests for rapid cell characterization.
Key elements of the roadmap include: 1. Technological Review of Mainstream Battery Technologies: A comprehensive analysis of the four prominent battery technologies, lead-, lithium-, nickel- and sodium-based, detailing recent improvements and future potentials. 2.
This roadmap should be seen as an enabling complement to the global battery roadmaps which focus on expected ultrahigh battery performance, especially for the future of transport. Batteries are used in many applications and are considered to be one technology necessary to reach the climate goals.
BATTERY 2030+ advocates the development of a battery Materials Acceleration Platform (MAP) to reinvent the way we perform battery materials research today. We will achieve this by creating an autonomous, “self-driving” laboratory for the accelerated discovery and optimization of battery materials, interfaces, and cells.