Battery Demand Challenges Asian Electrolyte Dominance

Several US businesses, including Quantum Scape, Solid Power, Factorial, and SES, have partnered with significant EV OEMs and received investments totaling more than $100 million. Blue Solutions – Bollore has installed polymer solid-state cells in Mercedes buses in France and has other SSB deployments planned for city buses.

With a capacity of 300 tonnes anticipated by 2025, Solvionic, a French company, is in the process of constructing its first mass manufacturing facility for electrolytes based on ionic liquids and Li-FSI salt. A low-cost thin-film solidstate technology is being developed in Poland by The Batteries for IOT applications.