A consortium of European partners has launched a new project aimed at developing innovative and sustainable lithium-ion cells for future battery-electric vehicles. The project, named ‘IntelLiGent,’ aims to bring these battery technologies to an industrial scale and achieve market maturity.
The project brings together the expertise of various partners from across Europe, with the goal of creating high-performance and low-cost batteries for electric vehicles. Specifically, the project focuses on addressing challenges such as energy density, service life, and fast-charging capability, all while keeping manufacturing costs low.
“The increasing demand for batteries for electric passenger cars in the EU requires striving for low cost and sustainable battery technologies,” said the researchers involved in the project.
The project’s ambitious goals include developing “optimised high-voltage electrodes” that would enable high energy densities of over 350 Wh/kg at high charging currents of more than 2C. Additionally, the project aims to achieve a full charge from 0 to 100 percent in less than 30 minutes and increase the service life to more than 2,000 cycles by stabilising the boundary layers.
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One significant aim of the project is to reduce the environmental impact of battery production by using cobalt-free cathode materials. Furthermore, by transferring sustainable and low-cost manufacturing to an industrial scale, the project expects to significantly reduce the manufacturing costs of future electric vehicle batteries.
The project’s ultimate goal is to create a multi-layer pouch cell that combines all of these ambitious targets, which is no easy feat. “The increasing demand for battery electric vehicles poses major challenges for the industry on different levels,” said David Dirnbauer, a battery researcher at the AIT Center for Low-Emission Transport. “Within the framework of IntelLiGent, we aim for a significant contribution to sustainable, resource-saving and at the same time cost-efficient battery cell production in Europe.”
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Partners involved in the project include Customcells, E-lyte Innovations, Vianode, SINTEF, Empa, Oxford University, and the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology. By pooling their expertise and resources, these partners hope to make significant progress in creating the next generation of high-performance, sustainable, and low-cost batteries for electric vehicles.
