BEPA Weeky Digest – June
10 June 2025
The BEPA Team has carefully selected some of this months news items to keep our community in the loop of the latest news from the battery ecosystem.
6 June
Starting up
- BEPA Reacts to EU’s release of its Startup & Scaleup strategy
- EU Start-Up Strategy Gets Warm Welcome, But Now Founders Want Action
Charts of the day
- Upcoming Commercial Readiness of All Solid-State Batteries
- Sodium-ion Batteries: Key Industrial Players
EU Battery Regulation
- Technical Support To Define Performance And Durability Minimum Requirements For Industrial Batteries
Insights and studies
- CAM Factories That Survive Chemistry Shifts
- Mini- and Microenvironments in Battery Cell Production: Players, Patents and Potential
- The Battery Bet That Changed the World
- Aging matrix visualizes complexity of battery aging across hundreds of cycling protocols
New developments
- Pioneer Project: Innovation and sustainability power Leonardo da Vinci Airport
- Stora Enso and Altris AB Partnership Development
- BASF starts commercial operation of Black Mass plant for Battery Recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany
- CATL Investigates Electrolyte Consumption in Lithium Metal Batteries
- Korean battery makers on high alert as US moves to spike EV subsidies
Events
- BEPA Webinar: Battery Stationary Energy Storage – Enabling Europe’s Energy Transition
- BEPA Webinar: The Battery Startups Lunch
13 June
Insights & studies
- Plan for the emergence, competitiveness, and resilience of an EU battery ecosystem — Leveraging combined use of local content policies and of new public aids schemes by Marine Hautsch & Jean-philippe Hermine
- What’s driving China’s sodium-ion battery sector to global forefront?
- AI-First: Bridging The Profitability Chasm In Battery R&D
- Sodium-ion batteries for two-wheelers
- Why smart infrastructure and energy intelligence hold the key to zero-emission by Kurt Vandeputte
- A comparative analysis of public R&I funding in the EU, US, and China
New development
- LiCORNE EU Project : Market Analysis, Community Engagement And Development Discussions
- POSCO Future M to lead entry-level and standard EV markets with LMR cathode materials
- AESC kicks off battery production at Douai gigafactory
- AQUABATTERY wins EUSEW Innovation Award
21 June
Insights & studies
- How do you successfuly commercialise your battery technology in Europe? by Elena Bonvecchio
- The Road to a Circular Economy: The Future of Battery Recycling
- Fast-Charging Batteries in Wearables: Tiny Devices, Big Innovations
- The government is sharing blame between Red Eléctrica and the companies for the massive blackout ( in Spanish)
New developments
- Saft and Safran to co-develop a high-voltage battery system for aviation
- Comau teams with Intecells to develop a new paradigm in battery electrode manufacturing Gian Carlo Tronzano
- CATL Starts Mass Production of LFP Cell for Stationary Energy Storage
Media
- Battery Startups Lunch with BASQUEVOLT , SOLiTHOR , Reliability and Safety Technical Center (RSTER) , Heimdalytics GmbH , Echion Technologies
- Europe’s Black Mass Bottleneck with Ilka von Dalwigk by Volta Foundation
- Direct Recycling a Shorter Path to New Batteries with Argonne National Laboratory Jeffrey Spangenberger by Volta Foundation
Events
- Battery Innovation Days: Registrations are open now!
28 June
EU Clean Tech Support
- The European Commission has adopted a new State aid framework (CISAF)
- EU rules out production aid in blow to battery and cleantech industry
- Scale or Fail: A Trade Strategy for Europe’s Clean Industry
- EIB Group increases 2025 financing ceiling to step up investments in security and defence, energy grids
- Unlocking the potential of dual-use research and innovation
New developments
- Redwood Energy: Fast, low-cost storage to power the age of AI and a changing grid
- QuantumScape Separator Process Enters Baseline Production
- CellLab Project to Advance Digitalized Battery Production
- Northvolt gets indicative bid
- Electric Vehicle Outlook 2025
Events
- Battery Innovation Days: Registrations are open now!
- BEPA Webinar: The Battery Startups Lunch
- International Congress for Battery Recycling