Weekly Digest – July

22 August 2025

4 July

Insights & studies

• Greens/EFA plans to power the first electro-continent

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• Hybrid Energy Storage SRIA from stoRIES

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• Q2 2025 Market Update from IPCEI Accompanying Research

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• Electric Vehicles in the Intelligent Age

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• Robin Zeng Outlines Vision for Global Zero-Carbon Transition

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• Evolution and/or disruption? On the Next FrameWork Programme from the European Parliament

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Open consultations

• Provide your opinion: Innovation Fund

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• Provide your Opinion: Critical Raw Materials Act

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• Provide Your Input: Industrial Decarbonisation Accelerator Act

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From the lab

• ENERGETIC Results: Sensor-less estimation of battery temperature

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• Economic and structural challenges of lithium-ion battery recycling in Europe

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• Paving the Way for Next-Generation All-Solid-State Batteries: Dry Electrode Technology

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Ecoosystem Developments

• Lyten Acquires Battery Energy Storage Systems Manufacturing from Northvolt

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11 July

EU Investments and policies

• EU invests €852 million in six innovative electric vehicle battery projects

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• New Rules for calculating and verifying recycling efficiency and the recovery of materials from waste batteries

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• Europe’s automotive industry at a crossroads

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Insights & studies

• Lithium-ion batteries are moving from ground to sky. That changes everything.

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• What is an EREV?

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• Additives for Li-ion: The Critical but Overlooked Materials Shaping the Battery Industry

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• Big data analytics for strategic decision-making across the battery value chain

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• De Meo’s mid-level player Renault could be Europe’s automotive future

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Ecosystem developments

• China Completes World’s Largest Vanadium Flow Battery Plant

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• Daesung Machinery and Powall sign Memorandum of Understanding

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Events

• BEPA Event: The Battery Startups Lunch

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18 July

EU Policy

• The 2028-2034 EU Budget ( Proposal from the European Commission)

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• BEPA Reaction to the New EU Budget Proposal

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• Commission puts forward €175B budget for FP10

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• Proposal for a Regulation Of The European Parliament And Of The Council establishing Horizon Europe

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• Republic of Korea joins Horizon Europe

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Insights & studies

• A Smart European Strategy for Electric Vehicle Investment from China

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• E-mobility Magazine

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Ecosystem developments

• BEPA members Geyser Batteries and BASQUEVOLT among 40 start-ups securing EIC support

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• BEPA Member Lithium367 selected for Women TechEU

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• BESS market overview H1 2025 by Iola Hughes

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• China Tightens Grip on EV Battery Tech with New Export Controls

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• General Motors and LG Energy Solution JV upgrade to produce LFP

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26 July

Battery technologies (Sodium-Ion)

• Benchmarking state-of-the-art sodium-ion battery cells

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• An advanced cathode for Na-ion batteries with high rate and excellent structural stability

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Battery technologies (Solid-state)

• Research, development, and innovation insights for solid-state lithium battery

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• Quasi-Solid-State Battery Breakthroughs

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• Farasis Energy Begins Pilot Production

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• Svolt Energy to begin trial production of semi-solid-state batteries

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Insights & studies

• McKinsey Technology Trends Outlook 2025

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• Fire Risk, Loss Prevention, and the Future of Lithium Battery Maritime Transport

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• Battery recycling market overview in H1 2025

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