Advanced lead batteries
More than 110 battery companies worldwide, who are members of the Consortium, are supporting research focused on delivering significant advancements in rechargeable energy storage. CBI is also partnering with universities and dedicated research organisations to develop enhanced lead batteries with improved performance and lifetimes.
Advanced lead battery research
2021’s technical program is being conducted under the banner of energy storage. With an innovative range of projects launching this year, enhancements of lead battery performance for energy storage is being targeted, including cycle life, energy density and battery lifetime. CBI is working with our global membership to conduct pre-competitive research to drive innovation in the technology.
Learn More
Advanced lead battery research
CBI members, in collaboration with some of the world’s leading research institutes, work on a range of innovative research projects.
Learn more
Technical roadmap
Working with our members, CBI has developed a technical roadmap for advanced battery research and innovation. It is based on extensive market research, and discussions with end-users in a bid to better understand customers’ technical requirements for the future.
View the technical roadmap
Research for advanced lead batteries
Each year, CBI releases a global request for research proposals focused on advanced batteries for different applications, to facilitate the latest research in the technology. The latest CBI RFP was launched in Q1 2022 and can be viewed below. The next RFP will be launched in 2023.
2022 RFP
Argonne
In a ground-breaking new project to help develop the next generation of advanced lead batteries, the Consortium for Battery Innovation is working with more than a dozen companies and the U.S Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. The collaborative research project at the world-leading Argonne Advanced Photon Source in Chicago will use the facility’s ultra-bright, high-energy X-ray beams to investigate the complex interactions taking place in lead batteries in real time.
Learn more“This new project, with Argonne’s scientists, will help make the leap to the next generation of advanced lead batteries”
The Consortium for Battery Innovation has published a series of studies in scientific journals setting out research into addition of carbon in lead batteries, the use of lead batteries in utility energy storage, and life cycle assessment studies for the lead industry. The journals are published here.
Comparison of Dynamic Charge Acceptance Tests on Lead–Acid Cells for Carbon Additive Screening
The Influence of Cell Size on Dynamic Charge Acceptance Tests in Laboratory Lead-Acid Cells, Research project funded by CBI
Understanding the functions of carbon in the negative active-mass of the lead-acid battery: A review of progress
2023 Consortium for Battery Innovation. All Right Reserved.
Battery Match