“Electromobility: In search of a super-battery”

Lithium-ion batteries, currently used in electric cars, are reaching the limits of their technical capabilities and companies around the world are looking for alternatives, write Lukas Bay, Martin Kölling and Franz Hubik in a report in Handelsblatt Online. What electromobility needs is a “super-battery”. To cut costs, developers need to make batteries that can hold much more energy with marginally higher material costs, they write. But developing these new batteries is difficult, and the efforts to do so are global – including among German industry. The authors quote Roland Berger expert Wolfgang Bernhart as saying German investments over the next 15 years would have to amount to a figure in the“double-digit billions”.

Read the article (behind paywall) in German here.

Read a CLEW dossier on the energy transition and transport here.

Read a CLEW factsheet on the subject here.