Part 2: User Experience, Functionality, and Consumer Satisfaction The equation below shows the relationship between battery capacity (supply) and consumer satisfaction (demand). The first post in this series examined the role of battery life in consumers’ satisfaction with their mobile devices. This post examines user experience and functionality.

By Ashok Lahiri, CTO and Co-Founder and Cam Dales, GM and CCO It’s an exciting time for electric vehicles. With rapidly growing sales, many new models entering the market and substantial investments from both automotive OEMs and governments globally, the U.S. government’s goal of reaching 40–50% EV sales by 2030…

Part 1: Battery Life and Consumer Satisfaction The first commercial lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery, commercialized in 1991, significantly increased energy density compared to the nickel-cadmium battery. Without this step-change increase in energy density, the brick-size cell phone of the 1980s would never have evolved to today’s sleek, sophisticated smartphones. Through 2020…

In June, the Federal Consortium for Advanced Batteries (FCAB) published the National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries, 2021–2030. We were pleased to see how many recommendations aligned with our strategy. In fact, we wrote a multi-part blog series looking at each mandate in the Blueprint and how our technology, production and…

Semiconductors, also called integrated circuits (ICs) or microchips, are the brains of modern electronics. Over the past 50 years, they have driven a rapid pace of innovation to produce exponentially more advanced products at lower cost. Semiconductors are a foundational technology for virtually all areas of our economy. …

The Wall Street Journal’s October 10, 2021 issue includes an article, “Biggest U.S. Retailers Charter Private Cargo Ships to Sail Around Port Delays.” The article opens with the following: “Global supply-chain delays are so severe that some of the biggest U.S. retailers have resorted to an extreme — and expensive…

According to the National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries, 2021–2030, maintaining and expanding lithium cell and battery manufacturing capability here in the U.S. is critical to our national security. That’s the focus of the fifth and final post in this series: Winning the Global Battery Arms Race. …

Part 4: A ‘Drop-in’ Advanced Battery Production Process The third post in this series focused on a specific near-term (2025) objective of the National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries, 2021–2030, “Promote the development of novel cell designs that reduce processing time, enable faster cell assembly, and decrease formation costs.” It describes how the Enovix 3D cell is the most…

Part 3: A 100% Active Silicon Anode Li-ion Battery The second post in this series focused on the third goal of the National Blueprint for Lithium Batteries, 2021–2030, “Stimulate the U.S. …