The core component of every electric car is the battery. It should be compact and as powerful as possible – and above all, safe. This places high demands on manufacturing. Researchers from the Fraunhofer IPA at the Center for Digitalized Battery Cell Production (ZDB) demonstrate what this could look…

Batteries with as much energy as possible are especially in demand for electric vehicles. The Fraunhofer IPA is working on solid-state batteries that are supposed to have an energy density of almost twice that of today's lithium-ion batteries, with 700 watt-hours per kilogram. Digital twins are inte…

Connect 2 Cleanrooms Ltd (C2C) has completed a new 340m2 cleanroom facility for Ilika PLC at its 1600m2 Stereax—millimetre-scale solid-state batteries—manufacturing facility. 

The cleanroom is a key element of Ilika’s new facility as it scales up Stereax, to become the first volume manufacturer of mi…

Powerful, durable, and safe: these properties, combined with a low price, could soon secure batteries “Made in Germany” a place among the best in the world. This will be realized by including advanced approaches to quality assurance and analytics in production, which are now being developed and test…

The Fraunhofer Research Fab Battery Cells (FFB) has started its research activities in Münster. Employees of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft and MEET Battery Research Center at the University of Münster (WWU) have put a mixing and coating system into operation in the "FFB Workspace" to test electrode produc…