Weekly Digest- July

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.

Reports and Intelligence

IPCEI Accompanying Research Market analysis (Q2 2024) https://lnkd.in/dWA39eSw
Carmaker’s EV investments: Is Europe falling behind? https://lnkd.in/e-gXFZ9K
Benchmark Mineral Intelligence’s Special Issue: Direct Lithium Extraction
https://lnkd.in/eSHrx3h8

Technology Development

Building Solid-State Batteries: Insights from Swiss Research Labs https://lnkd.in/dcbKPFaA
Developing a UK lithium-ion battery #recycling industry https://lnkd.in/dnZ3UDE3
World’s largest sodium-ion battery goes into operation https://lnkd.in/dmTJxhQ6
Geely Auto Group Unveils its New Short Blade EV Battery Technology
https://lnkd.in/gyKfjdJd
CATL has recently test-flown a 4-ton electric passenger aircraft equipped with its advanced ‘Condensed’ battery https://lnkd.in/dA4reeSC

Policy Updates

Canada joins Horizon Europe https://lnkd.in/d5mMna46
Clean energy innovation in China: fact and fiction, and implications for the future https://lnkd.in/ekh4vwjV
Free movement of #research and innovation will be central to renewing Europe’s Single Market https://lnkd.in/dvV-mggd
German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA) position on EU tariffs for EVs made in China https://lnkd.in/db6_9bax

📚 Books

Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green by Henry Sanderson https://lnkd.in/disDNKYC
The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet by Brett Christophers https://lnkd.in/dB9N-GDT
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization by Ed Conway https://lnkd.in/dsfCH4Jg
Emerging Battery Technologies to Boost the Clean Energy Transition by
Stefano Passerini et. Al.
https://lnkd.in/e_WVvwT2📖 Other reads
Europe’s choice political guidelines for the next European Commission 2024−2029 by Ursula von der Leyen
https://lnkd.in/ehgEFPsJ
Funding Europe’s Technology Revival by Paweł Świeboda, European Policy Centre
https://lnkd.in/dgxqj7Pu
eMobility R&D Roadmap for India by Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Review of current practices on life cycle approaches along the electromobil ity value chain by TranSensus LCA https://lnkd.in/d6_znYSA
Analysis of needs and gaps for the development of a harmonised LCA/S-LCA approach in the electromobility industry by TranSensus LCA
https://lnkd.in/d-kP2PUM

📑 Intelligence and OP-eds

COBRA Battery Market Intelligence Report https://lnkd.in/eRBfYCik
How the new EU Battery Fund can put Europe on the battery map
https://lnkd.in/dNpxyViW
Chris Heron Julia Poliscanova (she/her) Kinga Timaru-Kast
A Breakdown on Europe’s Chinese EV Tariffs https://lnkd.in/dWbrbMsd

🌐 Innovation Ecosystem

Borys Budka to chair European Parliament’s industry and research committee https://lnkd.in/dxQGpgWf
Six Companies Selected from Europe and India during Battery Recycling Technologies Matchmaking Event Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India European Commission Delegation of the European Union to India
https://lnkd.in/dDYqfUTn

📈 Market Development

BYD announces further global expansion https://lnkd.in/dsNzires
SVOLT targets five-minute charging time with ‘Short Blade’ battery cells
https://lnkd.in/d8RcaJgn

🔬 From the lab
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin research centre analyses solid-state cell degradation https://lnkd.in/dPhRDGMg

📹 Webinars
2024 EV & battery market slowdown: Temporary setback or long-term trend? https://lnkd.in/df-VRd5N Rho Motion
The Great Battery Chemistry Debate Sam Adham https://lnkd.in/d-QeS5xm

Media