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4 Sep 2025

FDK Corporation
FDK has a long history in battery innovation, starting with the production of carbon-zinc batteries in 1950. Over the years, it has expanded its expertise to include advanced battery technologies such as nickel-metal hydride (Ni-MH) and lithium-ion batteries. The company began focusing on solid-state batteries as a next-generation energy storage solution to address safety, energy density, and durability challenges inherent in conventional lithium-ion batteries.
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4 Sep 2025

Excellatron Solid State LLC
Excellatron Solid State, LLC, a US-based technology company, introduced innovative and enabling energy storage technology. The batteries made possible by this proprietary technology can be used in many applications and processes where other batteries would be inadequate. Later, Excellatron focused on lithium air batteries and the work on solid-state batteries was carried on by Johnson Battery Technologies.
Background
4 Sep 2025

CEA-Leti
CEA-Leti, a division of CEA Tech, has developed thin-film solid-state batteries using lithium phosphorus oxynitride (LiPON) as the electrolyte. This technology is part of its TINY platform, which focuses on integrated microbatteries for IoT and medical applications.
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4 Sep 2025

Fisker Inc.
Fisker, a Californian electric vehicle (EV) company, is working on commercialising a solid-state battery-powered version of its luxury car. The founder Henrik Fisker is extremely vocal about solid-state batteries, sharing a picture on LinkedIn where it can be inferred that LLZO is used as electrolyte; given the yellowish disks seen in the picture are semi-transparent, it could be that Fisker is using a composite electrolyte, where LLZO provides the bulk conductivity, and a polymer matrix smooths out any issues related to grain boundaries.
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4 Sep 2025

Ilika
Ilika plc, a UK-based company specializing in solid-state battery technology, has evolved significantly since its inception in 2004. Founded as a spin-out from the University of Southampton, Ilika initially focused on combinatorial materials development, leveraging high-throughput techniques to rapidly discover and optimize new materials. This approach gained attention from major corporations, including Toyota, which partnered with Ilika in 2008 to develop safer and more efficient battery materials for electric vehicles (EVs).
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4 Sep 2025

Hydro-Québec
In the 1990s, Hydro-Québec (Canada) and 3M (United States) collaborated on cells based on lithium metal foil as the anode, PEO LiClO4/LiN(CF3SO2)2 as the electrolyte, and vanadium oxide (VOx) as the cathode, aiming at the transport sector (EVs); these cell modules displayed 155 KWh/kg specific energy with a cycle life of 600 cycles at 80% depth of discharge (DoD).
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4 Sep 2025

Ganfeng Lithium
Ganfeng Lithium Co., Ltd., established in 2000 and headquartered in Xinyu, Jiangxi, China, is the largest lithium salt producer in China and the third largest worldwide. The company operates across the lithium battery supply chain, including lithium resource development, refining, battery manufacturing, and recycling. Ganfeng is dual-listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (002460) and the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (1772).
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4 Sep 2025

Factorial Energy
Factorial Energy Inc., headquartered in Massachusetts, is a pioneering company in the development of advanced solid-state battery (SSB) technology based on their proprietary technology, FEST® (Factorial Electrolyte System Technology).
3 Sep 2025

Software-Defined Vehicles: Built for Users, or for the Industry?
The concept of the Software-Defined Vehicle (SDV) has rapidly emerged as a transformative trend reshaping the automotive industry. Yet, despite widespread use of the term, there remains significant confusion around its core meaning, structural elements, and real-world driving forces.
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2 Sep 2025

LightTrans
LightTrans are a provider of optical simulation software to aid optical design.
2 Sep 2025

Glass in Semiconductors: The Next Inflection in Semiconductors
IDTechEx has released a brand-new market report, "Glass in Semiconductors 2026-2036: Applications, Emerging Technologies, and Market Insights", providing end-to-end market intelligence for seven distinct glass product segments, with technology deep-dives, benchmarking, supply chain mapping, adoption drivers, risk analysis, and unit and revenue forecasts 2025-2036.
Background
2 Sep 2025

Hongfeng Carbon Solutions
Hongfeng Carbon is a Chinese bipolar plate manufacturer, specialising in graphite plates
Background
2 Sep 2025

Jiangsu Yiangteng
Jiangsu Yiangteng is a Chinese manufacturer of metal bipolar plates (BPPs) and gas diffusion layers (GDLs).
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1 Sep 2025

Flow-nano
Flow-nano is a startup based in Italy which designs and produces nanostructured electrodes for electrochemical applications; in particular, redox flow batteries (RFBs).
29 Aug 2025

New IDTechEx Market Report: Advanced Coatings 2026-2036
This brand-new IDTechEx report comprehensively examines advanced coatings technologies, including key developments, drivers and commercial activity throughout the coatings industry. It covers application technologies, alternative materials and key markets, including 10-year granular market forecasts.
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28 Aug 2025

Syzygy Plasmonics
Syzygy Plasmonics is a US-based company leveraging photocatalysis for SAF production and ammonia cracking.
28 Aug 2025

New IDTechEx Market Report: Glass in Semiconductors 2026-2036
The new IDTechEx market report "Glass in Semiconductors 2026-2036: Applications, Emerging Technologies, and Market Insights" provides the first bottom-up market model segmented by seven physical product classes, from carrier wafers through to photonic tiles. Readers will gain a clear picture of how large the opportunity is - US$4.4 billion by 2036.
27 Aug 2025

Stellantis Exits the Fuel Cell Vehicle Market: Is it Over for FCEVs?
Major automotive group Stellantis has officially discontinued its hydrogen fuel cell technology development program. This also means that its hydrogen-powered Pro One vehicles will no longer commence serial production this year. According to IDTechEx's analysis, light commercial vehicles were never a good value proposition for fuel cell electric vehicle (FCEV) technology, but is this the start of the fall for FCEVs globally? In this article, IDTechEx investigates the developments in the first half of this year in the FCEV industry.
26 Aug 2025

Quantum Sensors Enabling Navigation, Medical Imaging, and More
Growing hype and synergistic development with quantum computing and communications are driving interest and investment into the quantum technology sector unlike ever before. Quantum sensors are anticipated to generate revenues of over US$1.9 billion by 2046, with an average CAGR of 9.0% over the next twenty years.
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22 Aug 2025

Rongke Power
Rongke Power is a redox flow battery (RFB) developer based in China and was founded in 2008. IDTechEx caught up with the company at the International Flow Battery Forum 2025 in Austria.