11 Jan 2021

Energy Storage Related Webinars Available to Watch On-Demand Today
IDTechEx currently have a number of energy storage related webinars available to watch on-demand. These include presentations on 2020 highlights, solid-state batteries, li-ion recycling, stationary energy storage, hydrogen economy and redox flow batteries.
5 Oct 2020

Regional Development of Solid-State Batteries
The rapid growth of the electric vehicle market has driven the development, manufacture and sales of batteries, especially lithium-ion batteries. In the meantime, a number of companies are betting on the next big energy storage technologies. Solid-state batteries are one of them.
28 Jul 2020

Solid-State Batteries Will Create a $6 Billion Market in 2030
Solid-state batteries keep on attracting tremendous attention and investment with the maturing technologies and closeness to mass production.
21 Jul 2020

Join the IDTechEx Webinar on Solid-State Batteries - 13 August
Solid-state batteries keep attracting tremendous attention and investment with the maturing technologies and closeness to mass production. Even with the influence of COVID-19, the potential market size is expected to grow to over $6 billion by 2030 according to IDTechEx.
Full profile interview: SWOT
21 Apr 2018

Ilika Technologies
Full profile interview: SWOT
15 Jun 2016

24m Technologies
Full profile interview: SWOT
6 Jun 2016

Johnson Battery Technologies
2 Jun 2016

Acquisition of battery companies
The pace is hotting up. As the lithium-ion battery business grows rapidly over the coming 15 years a vital way of buying time, clout in purchasing materials, routes to market, technology, economy of scale and brand awareness will be acquisitions.
Background
3 Sep 2015

Sakti3
Sakti3 is a company developing solid-state batteries. They were founded in 2007 by current CEO Dr. Ann Marie Sastry, who was then a professor at the University of Michigan. Sakti3 was recently acquired by Dyson for $90m.
Included are:
Full profile interview: SWOT
6 May 2015

SolidEnergy
12 Jul 2012

EV battery funding successes and hopes
US and European funding for electric vehicle batteries continues to trickle in but at a more modest scale than before.
7 Oct 2010

Sakti3 Third generation batteries backed
Earlier this year, the University of Michigan traction battery spinoff Sakti3, inc. announced $7 million in second round of venture funding led by capital firm Beringea, in addition to Khosla. Now G.M. Ventures has invested $3.2 Million in the company. Vloet/University of Michigan Professor Ann Marie Sastry of the University of Michigan is chief executive of Sakti3.