Greater safety, larger storage capacities, shorter charging times - solid-state batteries are set to outperform conventional lithium-ion batteries in almost all performance parameters in the future. The FestBatt battery competence cluster, with the participation of researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), has developed the basis for this.
In a second funding phase, complete battery systems and methods for production are now being developed. The Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is providing funding of around 23 million euros.
Further development of the lithium-ion battery could give electromobility a decisive boost in just a few years' time. Professor Helmut Ehrenberg, coordinator of the characterization platform in the FestBatt competence cluster at the Institute for Applied Materials (IAM) at KIT, is convinced of this.
Launched in 2018, the FestBatt competence cluster is developing this key technology on behalf of the German government and is now entering its second funding phase. The work is taking place in a highly competitive international environment - in order to open up future markets for Europe as quickly as possible, the German government has pooled the expertise of 17 scientific institutions with FestBatt. These include universities, Helmholtz Institutes and institutes of the Fraunhofer Society and the Max Planck Society; the work is being coordinated by Justus Liebig University Giessen (JLU).
