Consortium for Battery Innovation

What is the CBI Battery Innovation Roadmap?

The CBI Battery Innovation Roadmap sets out the performance targets, research priorities, and market drivers that will define the next wave of advanced lead battery technology in Europe. It covers every major application area, from automotive and energy storage to defence, telecoms, and beyond.

EU Roadmap

Why does it matter to EU industry?

Advanced lead batteries sit at the heart of European industry, powering everything from nuclear power plants to e-commerce warehouses. The roadmap gives manufacturers, researchers, and policymakers a shared framework for where the technology needs to go and what investment and innovation will get it there.

Roadmap Chapter Overview

1. Low Voltage Automotive: Micro-hybrid and Auxiliary

EU battery manufacturers are global leaders in low voltage automotive batteries. Over 50 million high quality, sustainable lead batteries are made domestically every year in the EU.

2. Energy Storage Systems Batteries

Energy storage for behind the meter and long duration will be increasingly reliant on domestic, safe battery technology. EU-made lead batteries are one of the only technologies capable of meeting this need at scale.

3. Motive Power: Sustainable Energy for Warehousing and Logistics

Lead batteries power the e-commerce and materials handling industry across the EU. Innovations are pushing performance to higher levels, allowing this sustainable technology to meet evolving operational requirements.

4. Safety Critical Batteries: Nuclear Power

Nuclear power is vital to the EU energy landscape, and lead batteries are the only accepted technology to safeguard operations.

5. UPS, Telecom and Data Centre Batteries: Sustainable, Mass Backup.

Telecommunications, switchgear, utility UPS, 5G, and data centres rely on lead batteries to maintain operations. Domestic lead batteries back up millions of sites across the EU.

6. Batteries for Defence Applications

EU Defence capability is powered by lead batteries. Militaries across Member States can rely on stable, robust supply chains and state of the art durability all provided by the EU.