BEPA Weekly Digest – January
31 January 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.
10 JANUARY
REPORT AND STUDIES
- EV Battery Supply Chain Sustainability by International Energy Agency (IEA)
- Advancements in Electro-Mobility: A Look into the Future of Passenger Cars and more
- A computational workflow for the simulation of solid-state battery electrodes by Alejandro A. Franco et all
OPINION
- LFP/LFMP & Lithium Extraction Restrictions on the Table by Cormac O’Laoire, PhD
- “Without a High Degree of Automation, We Wonʼt Win Anything” by Dr. Philipp Seidel, LL.M.
COMPANY NEWS
- Dürr supplies eight lines for electrode coating to FIB S.p.A. in Teverola, Italy
- Northvolt Shareholders Approve Continued Operations Amid Restructuring
- Strategic Partnership between POWERCO and PATRIOT BATTERY METALS
17 JANUARY
PICK YOUR CHEMISTRY
- The battery chemistries powering the future of electric vehicles
- Sodium-Ion Batteries and Their Potential in India
- Structural Design and Challenges of Micron-Scale Silicon-Based Lithium-ion Batteries
- A generative model for inorganic materials design
SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY
- Powering the Future: Overcoming Battery Supply-Chain Challenges with Circularity by Global Battery Alliance Inga Petersen
- Toward security in sustainable battery raw material supply by McKinsey & Company
EU STRATEGY
- Requests for €220B FP10 budget ‘not realistic,’ Zaharieva says
- Clean Industrial Deal: a conversation with EVP Teresa Ribera
COMPANY NEWS
- Series A Financing Round – Over Eight Million Euros Investment for Circunomics
- GM signs supply deal with Vianode for synthetic graphite for EV batteries Andreas Forfang
- SK Innovation E&S Unveils R&D Breakthroughs on All-Solid-State Batteries
- Microvast Announces Breakthrough in True All-Solid-State Battery Technology
24 JANUARY
MARKET & TECHNOLOGY INTELLIGENCE
- Market analysis update Q4 2024 by #IPCEI accompanying research Dr. Stefan Wolf
- Battery manufacturing series by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Daniel Kuepper
- Battery for stationary storage: facts & figures of 2024 by Rho Motion Iola Hughes
- Two recent studies by PEM RWTH Aachen University Heiner Heimes Achim Kampker
- Study on the potential of a solid-state battery industry in Europe >>> Read Here
- The Guide to Battery Testing >>> Read Here
MEMBERS NEWS
- Recovering critical raw materials from LFP batteries by TNO Alessio Alberto Lodge
- SOLiTHOR Appoints New Chief Executive Officer
CLEAN INDUSTRIAL DEAL
- EU’s Clean Industrial Deal to cover 6 themes from energy prices to trade
- Open Letter: For an ambitious clean (tech) industrial deal- Building Markets To Unleash Investments by Cleantech for Europe
OUTSIDE EU
- DRAFT: Energy Storage Strategy and Roadmap by U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) ( Consultation open until March 20)
- What do Trump’s executive orders mean for the EV and battery industry?
- 2024 in Review: A Reflection of Jigar Shah Leadership in the Office of Loan Programs Office | U.S. Department of Energy
- CATL to unveil new European EV battery plant in 2025 with local automaker, Vice Chairman says
31 JANUARY
REPORT & ANALYSIS
- Battery Report 2024 by Volta Foundation
- European Battery Ecosystem in 2025 … More of the same or some light? by Fabrice Stassin
- The Battery Cell Factory of the Future by Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Minjee Kim
- 2024 Review of China’s Energy Storage by Cormac O’Laoire, PhD
EU PARLIAMENT STUDIES
- Powering the EU’s future: Strengthening the battery industry
- EU–Latin America: Enhancing cooperation on critical raw materials
EU COMMISSION
- An EU Compass to regain competitiveness and secure sustainable prosperity
- Von der Leyen’s Competitiveness Compass explained
- Strategic Dialogue on the Future of the European Automotive Industry launched