China s fifth-generation battery technology

What is China's fifth largest EV battery maker?

Like its Japanese rivals, China’s fifth largest EV battery maker by shipmentis matching sulfide-based solid electrolytes, which theoretically gives the battery a high ionic conductivity, with silicon-based anodes, a non-toxic and promising active material, according to Pan Ruijun, a technical lead at Gotion.

Is China's new energy vehicle battery industry coevolutionary?

Empirically, we study the new energy vehicle battery (NEVB) industry in China since the early 2000s. In the case of China's NEVB industry, an increasingly strong and complicated coevolutionary relationship between the focal TIS and relevant policies at different levels of abstraction can be observed.

How China's battery industry has changed over the years?

Regarding knowledge development and exchange (F2 and F3), Chinese battery enterprises have increased their R&D expenditure, leading to several technological breakthroughs as well as increasing domesticalization of the key technologies in the four core battery components (anodes, cathodes, electrolytes, and separators) (Gov.cn, 2020).

Why do Chinese companies invest more in battery technology?

And because of the protection, as well as the efforts to domesticalise the battery value chain, the huge Chinese market was effectively restricted to domestic firms, and hence they could invest more in R&D and technology development and capture more added value (F2, F3).

Why are Chinese companies pursuing alternative batteries not based on lithium?

Lithium technologies are expected to advance quickly over the next few years. However, companies in China and beyond are frantically pursuing alternative batteries not centred around lithium, in part because the minerals needed to make the current options come from just a few countries.

How Chinese battery industry has a competitive advantage?

Meanwhile in battery subfields such as component manufacturing, Chinese players have achieved competitive advantages as well, and a highly robust domestic battery value chain, from raw materials, to component manufacturing, to cell and pack production, to EV application, has been formed (Industry representative 12).