Given the high technology required by electric vehicles, batteries play a fundamental role for improving the performance, autonomy and durability of cars.
Therefore, automotive giants are focusing their efforts and investments on creating innovations to build increasingly robust batteries, as a fundamental structure for transport electrification and mobility in general.
One of the major brands working in this field is Mercedes-Benz, announcing a technological cooperation agreement to develop next-generation cells with ProLogium, a specialist in solid-state batteries.
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The company, with 15 years of R&D and manufacturing experience, focuses on the development of next-generation batteries, including solid-state batteries with silicon anode, lithium metal anode and bipolar technology.
It should be noted that implementing these types of technological advances is one of the key aspects for determining cost, scalability and energy density in the electric vehicle battery area.
For example, solid-state electrolyte enables the use of materials with high storage capacity, enhanced ionic conductivity and chemical stability. The innovative materials and design of solid-state batteries can nearly double the range of today’s conventional Li-ion battery cells.
Medium-term Strategy
This partnership with Prologium is just one more step in Mercedes’ grand roadmap towards total electrification, a goal set for 2030.
The brand is putting a lot of effort into research and development activities, promoting further advances on battery technology and continually expanding the partner network with state-of-the-art innovations.
Markus Schäfer, member of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Mercedes-Benz, explained that solid-state technology helps to reduce the size and weight of the battery, which is why they are promoting alliances with companies such as Prologium. The company believes that range and efficiency are the new industry benchmarks for electric cars.
Markus Schäfer, Managing Director of Mercedes-Benz
For his part, Vincent Yang, CEO and Founder of ProLogium, revealed that they have been working with Mercedes-Benz on testing their EV battery cells since 2016, and are motivated to strengthen and expand the partnership.
One of the key issues raised by the agreement is that Mercedes-Benz will sit on the board of ProLogium, and the investment will be used to support technology development and the plan to establish production capacity in Europe.
Written by I Jhonattan González
