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With the EU slapping tariffs of up to 38% on Chinese EVs, it’s clear that governments are trying to protect their local manufacturing sectors, especially for EVs and their batteries.    The topic is hot outside the battery industry too, with posts on Morning Brew and The Wall Street Journal. In this edition of Building Better Batteries: - Nicholas Yiu challenges "the way we've done it before" in battery manufacturing. - Tony Thai, Director of Battery Science & Engineering at Voltaiq, offers clarity on the most mandatory and critical metrics to report on, what areas to focus on for improvement, and how to present data depending on your audience. - Tal Sholklapper and Eli Leland to present "The Digital Battery Factory" on July 16th at 9 am PT with Philipp Wunderlich from Accenture on understanding of the IT infrastructure needed for modern battery factories. (Link in newsletter to register) - Blake Hawley is back again presenting at PlugVolt in San Jose next week. Don't miss his presentation, Electrochemical Analysis to Accelerate Factory Scale-Up, at 5 pm on July 17. In content we're loving: - Bill Gates breaks down his climate investments. - Tal Sholklapper offers his best advice for battery companies. - The Rise of the Clean Energy Megaproject by Michael Thomas.

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We're two weeks out from PlugVolt Battery Seminar in San Jose, California! Stop by Voltaiq (booth 12) July 16-18 to learn how battery manufacturers are catching defects faster and decreasing their scrap rate. We're especially excited for Blake Hawley's talk on July 17th at 5 pm: Electrochemical Analysis to Accelerate Factory Scale-Up. We'll see you there! #PlugVolt #Batteries

We’re thrilled to announce Voltaiq’s partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to speed up battery cell production, cut down on waste, and ensure on-time product launches! Voltaiq is now available on the AWS Marketplace, listed on the Sustainability Solutions Library and will be co-sold with AWS’s global salesforce. The partnership brings Voltaiq’s technology and deep industry knowledge to a wider audience, empowering AWS customers in the battery industry to accelerate ramp-up and dramatically reduce battery scrap rates. This offering is especially beneficial for gigafactories, where Voltaiq's solution can reduce the time it takes to reach profitability by months, if not years. “By combining Voltaiq’s deep industry knowledge and leading battery quality analytics software with AWS’s cloud capabilities, we’re addressing the immediate challenges costing battery manufacturers billions of dollars during ramp-up.” Hari G., Head of Strategy, Sustainability & Electrification, AWS This announcement follows our successful completion of the AWS Foundational Technical Review (FTR). This achievement demonstrates our commitment to industry best practices in cloud security, reliability, and performance, as outlined by the AWS Well-Architected Framework. Read more about our partnership here: https://lnkd.in/gpjhr5eN

What does a modern battery factory look like? We get a lot of questions around gigafactory ramp-up and how to plan and build the most efficient, high-yield gigafactory from the ground up. Tal Sholklapper and Eli Leland are sitting down with Philipp Wunderlich from Accenture on July 16th at 9 am PT / 12 pm ET to discuss what "The Digital Battery Factory" of today looks like, and how to optimize for quality and yield during the planning process. With extensive experience in building and optimizing digital ecosystems for manufacturing, Dr. Philipp will provide invaluable insights alongside deep battery industry expertise from Tal and Eli. We'll cover: Key components of the “digital stack” for a modern gigafactory The impact of digitalization on battery cell manufacturing Battery production quality management in gigafactories Save your seat here: https://lnkd.in/eutHGMRw

Battery quality issues in production — more specifically, slow identification of issues — severely hamper both new factory ramp-up and in-field device performance and reliability. By leveraging electrochemical techniques and the fundamental signatures of batteries during the end-of-line process, we can: 1) identify poor-performing cells before they would be otherwise be identified, 2) quickly correlate performance issues to upstream root cause, and 3) identify which electrochemical metrics are best correlated with long-term performance. Next week, in partnership with PlugVolt, Blake Hawley presents Accelerating Factory Ramp-Up and Quality Through Advanced In-Line Electrochemical Techniques. Join us Wednesday, June 26 at 10 am EDT as Blake covers strategies to leverage end-of-line electrochemical characteristics, encompassing thermodynamics, kinetics, and transport phenomena. He'll discuss: • The multi-year, multi-billion-dollar battery factory scale-up challenge • The impact of battery quality variation on devices in the field • Techniques to understand the fundamental electrochemical signatures of batteries • Use of these techniques to accelerate factory ramp-up and improve shipped production quality Save your seat: https://lnkd.in/gjD26VJz

Who else is at The Battery Show Europe this week? 👋 Learn how companies are catching battery defects in hours (compared to weeks using existing QA processes) at Voltaiq booth #10-C05. Don't miss two presentations on Wednesday, June 19 by Kevin Wood: - Increasing the reliability of EV's and ESS through improved production quality presented (2:30-3:00 in the VIP Lounge) - Accelerating ramp up and profitability of new gigafactories (3:40-3:55 in the Open Tech Forum) #TheBatteryShow #Batteries

Three problems are top-of-mind in the battery industry: 1. What the true cost of batteries will be 2. How long it takes to ramp new factories 3. Managing the risk of potentially integrating (almost too) cheap batteries into products Tal Sholklapper recently shared how companies can gain a significant advantage in the market by understanding their battery performance faster than their competitors. Real-time visibility into cells leaving your production line is crucial. Identify defective cells quickly, understand the root cause, and ensure your batteries meet warranty requirements. The answer lies in leveraging your existing battery charging and discharging data collected immediately after manufacturing – essentially, the battery's first "heartbeats." This data can be used for: Efficient cell production - Identifying and removing defective batteries in hours, not weeks, significantly accelerating factory ramp-up. Improved quality & validation testing - Detecting quality issues months earlier than traditional methods, streamlining testing and preventing costly launch delays and recalls. The takeaway? Companies that learn and adapt fastest will: - Launch products quicker - Minimize scrap rates and returns - Optimize Bill of Materials (BOM) and operational costs for long-term competitiveness #Batteries #BatteryManufacturing #Gigafactory

There is a lot of buzz in the industry around a battery's "heartbeat" and what it says about the health of a battery and your overall production process. Eli Leland recently shared how insights from this charge-discharge heartbeat is saving millions of dollars in scrap, product launch delays, and recalls: "If you think about it, the battery’s voltage as it charges and discharges repeatedly is like a heartbeat. No two batteries are exactly alike, owing to manufacturing variability and the complexity of their internal composition. Batteries are sensitive to heat, cold, and the passage of time. They tend to degrade slowly — and then all at once. They even swell and shrink almost imperceptibly with each charge-discharge cycle, as if they are breathing. And every battery has a heartbeat. An electrochemical charge-discharge heartbeat. Your heartbeat says a lot about your health. A trained cardiologist can look at an electrocardiogram and see things like murmurs, arrhythmias, and past heart attacks. A battery’s heartbeat can reveal things like flaws in the battery’s internal physical structure, contamination in its vital electrode materials, and signs of specific degradation mechanisms and failure modes. On the production line, when the battery’s heart first beats, it can tell you if you’ve made a good battery or not. In a product development lab, it can tell you if the battery will be part of a successful product launch, or alternatively if you need to worry about battery fires in your customers’ pockets and garages. So at Voltaiq, that’s our approach — we look at the battery’s heartbeat. And in doing so, help our customers ramp up new battery factories faster and ensure successful product launches. Thump thump!" #Batteries #BatteryManufacturing #Gigafactory

How do you reduce scrap and optimize yield for gigascale battery manufacturing? Join Voltaiq CEO and Co-Founder Tal Sholklapper and Siemens Director of Digital Enterprise Chad Shaffer for a discussion around the biggest challenges facing the battery industry — the astronomical scrap rates associated with scaling up to manufacturing batteries at high volumes. They'll share the key levers to reduce these scrap rates and optimize production sooner, and highlight some of the ways Voltaiq and Siemens on this journey. Battery Forum (Volta Foundation) - June 10, 2024 at 5pm PST Sign up here: https://lnkd.in/gMGwAqYd #Batteries #BatteryForum #BatteryManufacturing