SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – December 03, 2024 │The increase in energy density is one of the main drivers for battery technology. On the anode side, silicon is a promising material to replace graphite and enhance battery performance, but several technical challenges exist, slowing the adoption of this technology. R&D laboratories and industrial companies quickly recognized[…]
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – March 20, 2023 │ Solid-state lithium battery news: Through KnowMade’s comprehensive patent landscape analysis, discover who entered the solid-state Li-ion batteries patent landscape in 2022. The competitive and technological landscape of solid-state batteries has been shifting in recent years. Numerous new companies have been entering the landscape, attracted by the huge[…]
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – July 29, 2022 │ Toyota were one of the first companies to put an electrical vehicle, the EV-RAV4, on the market in the late 1990s. The EV-RAV4 was equipped with Ni-MH batteries provided by Panasonic. Unfortunately, this Toyota electric vehicle battery used a patent held by GM Ovonics/Texaco. Toyota and Panasonic[…]
SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS, France – July 18, 2022│Electromobility is increasingly recognized as the future of the automotive sector. Plus, vehicle manufacturers are speeding up the shift towards electric transportation due to new regulations on CO2 emissions. Japanese car maker Toyota, one of the global leaders of the industry, has naturally shown an interest in electric vehicles[…]