(Invited) U.S. DOE Initiatives Supercharging Advanced Battery Manufacturing Innovation

Abstract

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) continues to invest in energy storage research, development, demonstration, and deployment (RDD&D) to help stakeholders improve efficiency, cut costs, and make materials, devices, and systems with superior performance. Despite recent promising advances, manufacturing capabilities are still necessary to meet the expected demand for energy storage as we move toward a clean energy economy. Strengthening the domestic manufacturing supply chains is also another important task to pursue in parallel. AMO and the Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) both funded projects through a Battery Manufacturing Lab Call to address capability gaps and engineering challenges for enhanced lithium-ion batteries, with a focus on de-risking, scaling, and accelerating adoption of new technologies through public-private partnerships. These projects successfully demonstrate how the advanced technologies are increasingly being used to solve battery manufacturing challenges. In addition, flow battery systems manufacturing projects funded by AMO are focusing on developing efficient, scalable manufacturing processes, and robust supply chains for flow battery system components. In this talk, the status and accomplishments of the projects will be highlighted. In addition, there will be a robust discussion of a wide variety of AMO’s efforts in the context of technical and manufacturing challenges regarding scale-up and performance that still prevent the electrochemical energy storage community from achieving cost targets and commercial viability.