2024

Feb 29, 2024. Event next week: International Women's Day.

Feb 28, 2024. Deep Dive Into Battery Software - part 3

Feb 23, 2024. Deep Dive Into Battery Software - part 2

Feb 21, 2024. Deep Dive Into Battery Software - part 1

Feb 15, 2024. Dry Batts (Part 2).

Feb 8, 2024. Where’s the ABC: Adaptation of Battery industry to Climate Change?

Feb 5, 2024. January Round Up.

Jan 24, 2024. Revolutionising Energy Storage: The AI and Experimental Design Fusion in Battery Tech.

Jan 18, 2024. A short brainstorm on niobium.

Jan 9, 2024. STEERing the battery industry in right direction.

2023

Dec 13, 2023. See you in 2024!

Dec 11, 2023. Nov & Dec 2023 Roundup.

Dec 6, 2023. Batteries in Human Spaceflight (Part 1).

Nov 29, 2023. Watt's up with battery LCA? Learning about LCA with our friends at Minviro.

Nov 16, 2023. ISE Report 2023: Never Want To Go Rhône.

Nov 14, 2023. "The end product cannot be cheaper than the sum of all the raw materials"

Nov 8, 2023. October 2023 Roundup.

Oct 25, 2023. The Battery Industry in 2030.

Oct 4, 2023. Summer 2023 Roundup (Part 2).

Sep 27, 2023. Flavours of Faraday 2023.

Sep 20, 2023. Deep Dive: Deep Sea Mining.

Sep 13, 2023. Supercharging mobility: making movement joyful in cities.

Sep 6, 2023. Community Asks & Shares.

Aug 30, 2023. Landscape: Wireless Charging.

Aug 23, 2023. The Moving Landscape of Stationary Storage: A short introduction to electricity markets.

Aug 9, 2023. Community Asks.

Jul 26, 2023. Our Investment in About:Energy. Sharing through Intercalation Collective.

Jul 18, 2023. Summer 2023 Roundup (Part 1).

Jul 12, 2023. A Slice of Slurry Rheology.

Jun 21, 2023. A recap of Energy Tech Summit.

Jun 15, 2023. Climate Justice: The Critical Material we aren’t talking about.

Jun 13, 2023. Does it Correlate with Carbonate? Finding empirical relationships in our recent Li-ion battery component cost tracking data

Jun 7, 2023. Our Investment in Magrathea.

May 31, 2023. Fast charging + EV charging infrastructure.

May 10, 2023. The moving landscape of stationary storage: leveling up on LCOS.

May 3, 2023. Celebrating 3 years! 🔋🔋🔋

Apr 25, 2023. Our Investment in Infyos. Sharing through Intercalation Collective.

Apr 19, 2023. Na-ion: A battery worth its salt? Frank Wunderlich-Pfeiffer evangelizes us on sodium-ion batteries.

Apr 17, 2023. Our latest product... the Battery Component Price Report.

Apr 11, 2023. Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital… and what this means for batteries.

Apr 5, 2023. March 2023. Roundup Deep sea mining regulations, silicon anode announcements, and raw materials prices.

Mar 29, 2023. Gigaprofits: "batteries not included". Analyzing gigafactory financials.

Mar 23, 2023. Startup Dive: Sakuu. 3D printing meets batteries..?

Mar 15, 2023. A massive untapped electric vehicle market no one is talking about.

Feb 27, 2023. February News Roundup.

Feb 21, 2023. Show me the money (& jobs). Visualizing the job creation and funding received by US battery company awardees.

Feb 15, 2023. BattGPT or AI bubble?

Feb 9, 2023. Revival of the lithium metal battery. Learning about lithium metal with Xiao (Sherry) Zhang.

Jan 26, 2023. 2023: High costs, cheap chemistries, more batteries.

Jan 24, 2023. Britishvolt Alumni Directory. Finding a new home for the talented staff at Britishvolt.

Jan 18, 2023. The Battery Report 2022.

Jan 11, 2023. Battery Thermal Management: Standardize and Conquer. Learning about battery thermal management with heat experts.

Jan 5, 2023. Why has the cost of battery electrolytes halved? 12 months is all it takes to transform the LiPF6 industry.

2022

Dec 12, 2022. Phase 2: Intercalation Collective. Sharing a personal journey and what’s next for Intercalation.

Dec 8, 2022. The Moving Landscape of Stationary Storage: The cost of grid energy is on the up and up, can stationary storage keep it still?

Nov 22, 2022. Does the Foundry Model Work For Batteries? Drawing parallels from the semiconductor industry.

Nov 16, 2022. Battery Development 2.0. Learning about virtual modelling and prototyping.

Nov 10, 2022. Dry Batts.

Nov 2, 2022. 2022 Intercalation Annual Survey.

Oct 5, 2022. ICYMI: Battery Startup Showcase.

Sep 28, 2022. Battery degradation & the SEI. And a closer look at artificial SEIs with Coreshell Technologies.

Sep 21, 2022. Eyes on Indonesia. A Class I nickel squeeze puts an emphasis on alternative nickel processing methods.

Sep 14, 2022. Battery Startup Showcase. Save the date: Thurs Sep 29, 5pm BST / 9am PST / 12pm EST.

Aug 26, 2022. Summer News Roundup. CEO compensation, lithium price forecasting, a growing call to shrink battery pack sizes.

Aug 23, 2022. Intercalation Annual Survey.

Aug 17, 2022. BotB 5: Pouch cells Lets calculate how pouch cells stack up.

Aug 9, 2022. Startup Dive: 24M. Semi-solid dual-electrolyte lithium-metal batteries for houses and airplanes.

Aug 2, 2022. Happy Birthday John B. Goodenough. Centenarian of Energy Innovation.

July 28, 2022. Volt Rush: The Winners and Losers in the Race to Go Green.

Jul 14, 2022. Second life for batteries. Taking an under-the-hood look thanks to our guest contributors at ReJoule,

Jul 7, 2022. LFP trends and lithium deficits. The latest Advanced Propulsion Centre Q1 2022 demand report.

Jul 5, 2022. Running out of gas. What the shift away from gas means for battery storage.

Jun 22, 2022. Tech Dive: Ultrasound. An overview of ultrasound in battery manufacturing.

Jun 15, 2022. Battery Chats: Sarah Montgomery. Learning about blockchain and battery supply chains.

Jun 10, 2022. Batteries at the Beach: Solid Electrolytes and Lithium Metal Anodes.

Jun 3, 2022. May News Roundup. Battery SPACs, electric bus fires, short seller attacks, and Dahn Lab cycle life estimates.

May 25, 2022. Flow batteries and cars: a complicated love story. We go deep into the feasibility of flow-battery-powered cars.

May 18, 2022. Tech Dive: Current Collectors. A dive into current collector innovators.

May 6, 2022. Energy or Power? A Global Grid Storage Database reveals how installations stand on E/P ratio.

May 4, 2022. Startup Dive: Battrion. "More with less" via anode architecture.

Apr 21, 2022. 2 years!

Apr 12, 2022. Mid-April News Roundup. A battery that can last 100 years, Canada's shiny new EV investments, solid-state criticisms from industry.

Mar 24, 2022. A Battery Taxonomy. Putting different battery chemistries in their place.

Mar 18, 2022. r/Energy on Grid Scale Storage. PhD Fellow Gaël weighs in on hydrogen vs flow vs hydro vs gravity vs metal-air vs...

Mar 16, 2022. Tech Dive: Blockchain x Batteries. Not a #crpyto post.

Mar 9, 2022. February-ish News Roundup. Battery fires, fiery tweets, and the nickel crisis explained.

Feb 23, 2022. Battery Chats: Richard Wang, CEO & Co-Founder at Cuberg And an overview of lithium metal anode technology.

Feb 15, 2022. Peeking at the Chinese battery materials market. What did we learn? Prices 上涨了.

Feb 10, 2022. Sodium Ion Series. Part 1: Materials and landscape for the developing sodium ion market.

Feb 3, 2022. January News Roundup. Tricky press releases, global lithium mine pushback, and battery swapping infrastructure.

Jan 26, 2022. Technology Dive: Formation.

Jan 10, 2022. The Battery Report 2021.

2021

Dec 20, 2021. Happy holidays from Intercalation!

Dec 3, 2021. November News Roundup. Who managed to make it through No Cobalt November?

Nov 17, 2021. Battery Chats: Sam Korus, Analyst at ARK Invest. A convo with Sam Korus on tech investments and battery companies.

Nov 8, 2021. #SESBatteryWorld. The future is solid, the present is fluid.

Nov 4, 2021. October News Roundup. Fiendish battery fires, frightening commodity prices, and Tom Brady.

Oct 27, 2021. Silicon Series. Our deep dive into the companies that work with silicon (Part 4).

Oct 19, 2021. Bringing new energy to battery industry reporting. A conversation with intellectual property firm Mewburn Ellis

Oct 15, 2021. Would you trust a cloud-based battery management system? Guest opinion piece by Roman Leventov

Oct 13, 2021. Battery Chats: Sam Bailey, Mewburn Ellis. A review of the LG vs SK case.

Oct 7, 2021. BotB 4: Cylindrical cells. Roll it up!

Oct 6, 2021. September News Roundup. Booming EV production + new battery factories = not enough lithium.

Sep 28, 2021. Silicon Series. Our deep dive into the companies that work with silicon (Part 3).

Sep 20, 2021. BotB 3: The cell stack Lets make a cell sandwich

Sep 14, 2021. BotB 2: Active materials & electrodes We're finally back with our "back of the battery" calculator!

Sep 6, 2021. Battery Chats: Thomas Heenan, CEO and Co-Founder at Gaussion.

Sep 1, 2021. August News Roundup. Did NMC chemistry fly too close to the sun?

Aug 24, 2021. The Art of Fast Charging. A look into Echion Technologies' fast charging materials technology

Aug 20, 2021. Intercalation Survey Results. A brief snapshot of the battery industry in 2021

Aug 2, 2021. July News Roundup. Batteries of iron, sodium, and lithium of course

Jul 29, 2021. Patent Round-Up - July 2021 Mewburn Ellis walks us through battery patents from June/July 2021.

Jul 20, 2021. Intercalation 2021 Survey.

Jun 30, 2021. June News Roundup. Gigafactory FOMO, second life taking lives, and the latest research

Jun 24, 2021. Silicon Series. Our deep dive into the companies that work with silicon (Part 1).

Jun 17, 2021. BotB 1: Introduction & Capacity Building a "back of the battery" calculator, starting with theoretical capacities

Jun 2, 2021. May News Roundup. Solid-state batteries are looking solid, EV stocks take a tumble, and a veteran startup closes up shop

Jun 1, 2021. OXIS Energy Alumni Directory. Finding a new home for the talented staff at OXIS

May 25, 2021. Staying current with the battery value chain. Our guest column with Climate Tech VC.

May 21, 2021. Battery Chats: Pooja Vadhva A convo with solid-state researcher and champion taekwondo athlete + some fun battery tidbits

May 19, 2021. LFP Batteries Reveal Recyclers' Shaky Foundations.

May 11, 2021. Startup Dive: StoreDot.

May 5, 2021. Gotta Charge Fast. Sketching the landscape for fast charging strategies

Apr 30, 2021. April News Roundup. Startups make moves, OEMs give hazy updates, and yet more solid-state battery announcements are made

Apr 28, 2021. ONE YEAR: A Special Message. Introducing some new Intercalation Station projects.

Apr 21, 2021. A Digest of Battery Discovery from Roman Leventov's new battery substack!

Apr 12, 2021. Mind the Gap (between academia and industry). A conversation with Cell Siders.

Apr 7, 2021. Bridging the Battery "Valley of Death". It can take a decade to develop a viable proof of concept, and having money helps.

Mar 28, 2021. Research & Rescue: Drowning in Papers. 16 papers from the last 8 days. Battery papers are printing at roll-2-roll gigascales.

Mar 16, 2021. Volkswagen Elektromobilität. Spoiler alert: VW's electrification agenda involves batteries

Mar 8, 2021. The Unlimiting Factor: Jordan Giesige. A conversation with the prolific YouTuber, and updates from around the battery interwebs

Mar 3, 2021. The Battery Materials Supply Crunch. A chat with Alex Grant + Li, Ni, & Co global supply vs. demand numbers!

Feb 22, 2021. Big Autos and Small Anodes. Anode-less batteries, Legacy autos on the move, and the LG Chem v. SK Innovation saga

Feb 1, 2021. State of Batteries 2020. BatteryBits report, and some updates from around the battery interwebs

Jan 25, 2021. Fast Charge & Fast Money. SPAC-attack, Dahn empire, Million-mile manuscripts, and fast charging

2020

Dec 8, 2020. Staying Cool & Solid. Thermal management, QuantumScape's announcement, a look into battery fraud, and more!

Dec 3, 2020. Careers Panel. With global experts Prof Shirley Meng, Dr Christine Ho, and Celina Mikolajczak!

Nov 5, 2020. Critical Mineral: Human Talent Highlighting those ushering in the next battery generation.

Oct 24, 2020. AI for Batteries. Special issue on Batteries and Artificial Intelligence with Charles Yang.

Oct 1, 2020. Quantum Leap for Solid State? QuantumScape going public, new US DoE projects, career insights with Crystal Jain, and more.

Sep 25, 2020. Tesla Battery Day.

Aug 24, 2020. The China Effect China, 2nd-lives, electrolyte additives, text-mining, and then some.

Jul 27, 2020. Is Nikola Beyond Lithium? Beyond lithium-ion, twitter bots, "fool-sells", and more await you.

Jul 6, 2020. Community Survey. A monthly battery of the latest energy storage innovations in academia and industry.

Jun 29, 2020. Recycling Gigafactory. Output Recycling, Battery500, Million-miles, Gigafactories, and more!

May 25, 2020. Silver Samsung Solid State. BMWS, Samsung, lockdown, Form energy, and more!

Apr 27, 2020. Nobel Reflections: Li-ion development, virtual events, and more!