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12 Promising Battery Tech Innovations in 202412 Promising Battery Tech Innovations in 2024

In 2024, several significant advancements in battery and energy storage technologies emerged: Here are 12 of the most exciting.

Michael C. Anderson, Editor-in-Chief, Battery Technology

January 16, 2025

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Research and development in the energy storage industry has been happening at a fast pace in recent years, with new announcements of progress in making batteries cheaper, safer, more powerful, longer lasting, and more sustainable coming almost daily.

Many of the most significant developments come from the major battery manufacturers, which have the budgets and brainpower to go all-in on research, prototyping and production. When major companies such as CATL, BYD, Samsung, Tesla, and the like announce a breakthrough, it sends immediate ripples through the industry—even when actual production of the improved design is months or years away.

But also exciting are the discoveries and developments at the edge of the industry by university labs and small startups around the globe, such as when Tianjin University of Technology develops an implantable battery fueled by the body’s own oxygen, or when a Tohoku University researcher helps to develop a paper-based magnesium-air battery recharged by air and water.

Such developments don’t always prove practical to produce and some never make it out of the laboratory—but others do and in time can rock the industry. After all, for years solid-state batteries (SSBs) seemed a lab-locked pipe dream that was too impractical to put into production. But Honda plans to begin test production of SSB EV batteries this very month—and other companies are close behind them.

From the industry’s most power competitors to the smallest lab, 2024 saw several exciting breakthroughs. Here are 12 of them:

About the Author

Michael C. Anderson

Editor-in-Chief, Battery Technology, Informa Markets - Engineering

Battery Technology Editor-in-Chief Michael C. Anderson has been covering manufacturing and transportation technology developments for more than a quarter-century, with editor roles at Manufacturing Engineering, Cutting Tool Engineering, Automotive Design & Production, and Smart Manufacturing. Before all of that, he taught English and literature at colleges in Japan and Michigan.

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