BEPA Weekly Digest – May
14 May 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.
2 May
CISAF
Output-Based Production Support – The Missing Piece In The Proposed Clean Industrial State Aid Framewrok (CISAF)
Horizon Europe
- Mid-Term Evaluation of Horizon Europe
- Horizon Europe Cluster5 (Climate, Energy and Mobility) Work programme is pre-published
- Batt4EU Project Results: Extraction of lithium from different feedstocks showing promising results
EU Survey
- Commission seeks input on the future European Strategy on Research and Technology Infrastructures
Studies
- Cross-sector battery report by UK Research & Innovation
- New twists in the electric-vehicle transition: A consumer perspective
New Developments
- Stellantis and Factorial Energy Reach Key Milestone in Solid-State Battery Development
- Ford Makes Breakthrough with LMR Battery Chemistry
- Elemental Group has unveiled its ambitious plans for the largest greenfield investment in Poland’s history
- South Korean Battery Firms Reassess Investments Amid Global Market Shifts
9 May
Studies & Insights
- Battery Recycling Assumes Strategic Role As Countries Seek To Strengthen Critical Mineral Supply
- Beyond the Gigafactory: Why Custom Battery Solutions Matter for OEMs Outside Automotive by Alex Stapleton
- Exploring oxide cathodes for Li-ion batteries: From mineral mining to active material production by Karim Zaghib et al.
- Battery due diligence rules: are carmakers ready? by T&E
- Open Letter: A Clean Industrial State Aid Framework (CISAF) To Deliver On The Clean Industrial Deal
Stationary storage
- CATL at Smarter E: We are entering the era of 9 MWh systems
- Battling Revenue Erosion: Sharper SOC Accuracy Can Lift BESS Earnings by 11% by Dr. Georg Angenendt
Solid-state batteries
- Optimisation of Solid-State Batteries: A Modelling Approach to Battery Design by Jan Felix Plumeyer et al.
- Ilika plc ’s Goliath P1 Cells Validated by OEM
- SK On publishes solid-state battery research, enhancing lifespan and performance
New developments
- Start of “FFB Fab”: another milestone for battery cell production in Münster Fraunhofer-Einrichtung Forschungsfertigung Batteriezelle FFB
- Altech Advanced Materials AG Commissions Pilot Plant for Anode Material
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LG Energy
Solution Establishes Battery Recycling Joint Venture with Derichebourg
- Amprius Launches SiCore™ 450 Wh/kg High-Energy Cell
Events
- BEPA Webinar: Battery Stationary Energy Storage – Enabling Europe’s Energy Transition
- Engineering the skies: The rise of electric flight by The Faraday Institution
- China’s green tech: From its role in global decarbonisation to domestic overcapacity realities by Bruegel – Improving economic policy
Media
- Volta Foundation Battery Forum: Using Modeling & Simulation to Accelerate Battery Design featuring Zamaan Sadeghi & Thomas G.
16 May
Horizon Europe Work Programme
- 2025 Horizon Europe Work Programme – Cluster 5
Insights and studies
- Global EV Outlook 2025 by International Energy Agency (IEA)
- How to Enter Europe: Opportunities & Strategic Policy Guidelines for Chinese Battery Companies
- Rules For The Calculation Of The Carbon Footprint Of Industrial Batteries Without External Storage
- Enhanced Ion Mobility in Helmholtz Layer Enabling Ultrathick Electrodes
Ecosystem developments
- Vianode And Fortum Partner On Recycled Graphite For EV Batteries
- Introducing Lanzo, a CIDETEC Spin-off
- Li-Cycle Files for Insolvency in Canada
- GM’s New Battery Tech Could Be a Breakthrough for Affordable EVs
EU Affairs
- Energy dimension of the Clean Industrial Deal
- Don’t forget bottom-up research, industry tells Commission
24 May
Insights and studies
- Global Critical Minerals Outlook 2025 by International Energy Agency (IEA)
- Why is Cathode Material So Expensive?
- How much of the battery recycling industry does China control?
- EU Batteries Regulation update: Two-year delay proposed, but no time to pause by Kumi Consulting Ltd
- Battery research needs more reliable, representative and reproducible synchrotron characterizations by Sandrine Lyonnard & Jakub Drnec
- Advanced Lithium-Ion Battery Process Manufacturing Equipment for Gigafactories: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives by Atiyeh Nekahi , Karim Zaghib et al.
Ecosystem developments
- Slovak startup InoBat launches battery for military drones
- Fortum launches Battery Box for EV battery recycling logistics
- Japan’s TDK accelerates launch of next-generation battery
- China Battery Giant CATL Raises $4.6 Billion in Hong Kong Listing
30 May
Insights and studies
- The geostrategic race for leadership in future electric vehicle battery technologies
- Point of Focus for Battery Startups?
- “With twenty billion euros for storage, you save 100 billion euros in grid reinforcement”
- 2025 State of EV Charging Industry by ChargeUp Europe
- Rebuilding European Defence Requires an Economic Engine Room and an Energy Strategy
EU Battery development
- The European Commission Has Launched the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy
- The European Commission has published “Components primarily used for net-zero technologies under the Net Zero Industry Act
- CO2 emissions in cars: Council gives final approval to additional flexibility for carmakers
- European Investment Bank (EIB) to provide €70B for tech firms and innovators
Media
- BNEF Summit Munich 2025
- Stanford Energy Seminar | Measuring the most important figure of merit in a lithium metal battery
- Batteries without Lithium – Progress in Research and Challenges | Prof. Jürgen Janek
Events
- BEPA Webinar: Battery Stationary Energy Storage – Enabling Europe’s Energy Transition
- BEPA Webinar: The Battery Startups Lunch