BEPA Weekly Digest – February
28 February 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.
7 FEBRUARY
STUDIES & INSIGHTS
- Western Battery Graphite Markets: is there hope ahead? by Ahmed Mehdi
- Charting a Course: Batteries in the Maritime Industry by The Faraday Institution
- Scenarios for North American light vehicle electrification by Roland Berger
- Practical pathways to higher energy density LMFP battery cathodes by Louis Piper et al.
- France leads Europe’s solid-state efforts by Matthew Bird
- What the world’s biggest battery nerd learned in his first year at GM by Kurt Kelty
EVENTS & MEDIA
- GIGA EUROPE 2025, Brussels, 18-19 March 2025, organized by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
- Webinar: Solving Cell Manufacturing Challenges with Advanced Analytics by Volta Foundation
- An interview with EVP Teresa Ribera, on the political tensions against the Clean Industrial Deal
14 FEBRUARY
STUDIES & INSIGHTS
- Battery Monitor 2024/2025 by Roland Berger Wolfgang Bernhart
- The year of the terawatt hour, who deployed the most batteries in 2024? by Rho Motion
- Evaluating the possibilities and limitations of the pyrometallurgical recycling of waste Li-ion batteries by Mari Lundström et al.
- Some Thoughts on LFP Export Restrictions by ICCSINO
COMPANY NEWS
- Toyota presents new battery recycling technology
- German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) project launched for fast industrial implementation of sodium-ion technology
- Mid-nickel EV batteries garner 19% market share in China
- Hyundai is launching its all-solid-state ‘Dream’ EV battery pilot line next month
EU STRATEGY
- 2024 Policy Orientations of the European Innovation Council Forum
- Draghi on a shoestring: the European Commission’s Competitiveness Compass by Bruegel – Improving economic policy
21 MARCH
POSITIONS & INSIGHTS
- Clean Tech Reality Check: Battery Manufacturing by Cleantech for Europe
- RECHARGE – European Association of the Advanced Rechargeable & Lithium Batteries Value Chain recommendations for the EU industrial action plan for the automotive sector
- Two new Reports by T&E
Assembly plant or battery powerhouse? Analysis of foreign battery investments in EU
EU Commission’s State Aid plans fail to deliver for cleantech
- From mining to recycling. The R&I journey of battery raw materials in EU
NEXT-GEN
- Cheaper, Better, and Smaller: The Future of Battery Technology by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
- Organic batteries by Marja Vilkman
- Chinese firms unveil accelerated and ambitious plans for all-solid-state batteries
NEW DEVELOPMENTS
- Northvolt sells heavy industry battery business to truckmaker Scania
- Mercedes-Benz tests solid-state battery with 620-mile range
- BYD expects to begin ‘demonstration use’ of all-solid-state batteries by 2027, exec says