Battery future: Nissan sets up pilot plant for solid-state batteries

Solid-state batteries Battery future: Nissan sets up pilot plant for solid-state batteries

2024-04-29 From Susanne Braun | Translated by AI 2 min Reading Time

Solid-state batteries offer the potential for improved performance, safety, and reliability compared to conventional Li-ion batteries. To meet the vision of "Nissan Ambition 2030", the automaker is setting up a pilot plant for solid-state batteries in order to bring them to market by 2029.

The solid-state battery pilot plant by Nissan is still under construction.(Image: Nissan) — The solid-state battery pilot plant by Nissan is still under construction.
(Image: Nissan)

Contrary to widely used Li-Ion batteries, solid-state batteries, as the name suggests, do not use liquid or gel-like electrolytes, but solid ones. The technology promises higher thermal stability, making it interesting for various applications in different areas. At the same time, a higher energy density is expected, allowing the batteries to store more energy per unit of volume. Concurrently, solid-state batteries are supposed to offer a longer lifespan with greater safety and charging capability.

This, of course, sounds very promising. However, battery manufacturers still face several challenges. Questions regarding production costs and scalability still need to be answered. These questions seem to have already been solved at least for Nissan, as the responsible parties plan to bring the first solid-state batteries to market by the year 2029. To achieve this, a pilot plant for solid-state batteries is now being set up at Nissan's Yokohama plant.

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Nissan Ambition 2030 serves as motivation

The corporate vision "Nissan Ambition 2030" plans to offer solid-state batteries for use in various vehicle segments by the fiscal year 2028, which ends on March 31, 2029. The goal is to improve the competitiveness of electric vehicles. To achieve this, Nissan has invested a lot of money and time in research and development, for example, to explore battery technology at the molecular level and to create concepts of cities where electric vehicles serve as energy storage thanks to bidirectional charging.

"The so-called All-Solid-State Batteries elevate electromobility to the next level: They have almost twice the energy density of conventional lithium-ion batteries, shorter charging times due to better charging performance, and lower costs due to cheaper materials," Nissan shares. The pilot plant for the high-voltage batteries is currently under construction and is expected to be completed by the end of the fiscal year 2024, hence by March 31, 2025 at the latest. (sb)

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