- Capability group
- Energy Technologies
- Domain
- Critical Technology · Hard Power
- Identifier
- factbase.org/cap/M079CQ720P
- Reference
- Electric battery Wikipedia
Papers
138.4k
2020–2024
Paper growth
+67%
2020–24 on 2015–19
Patent families
260.4k
2020–2024
Filed abroad
30%
families in more than one office
In the framework
What the capability covers and what it leaves to others, and the indicators it will be measured by.
Bounds
Covers storage technology from chemistry to cell and pack manufacture; grid-scale installations belong to Strategic Infrastructure, and battery-materials supply reads at the control layer, shared with the materials group.
Lineage
Carried from v0.0 (formerly Electric batteries) with the same identifier, absorbing Supercapacitors (retired): one storage capacity, two chemistries, with the distinction living at the indicator layer.
Indicators
- research publication share in energy storageResearch
- battery cell manufacturing capacityPending
- battery patent familiesPatents
- cell export sharePending
Research
Papers classified to the capability, by year and by the nation of their authors' institutions, 2020–2024. Read from the v0.0 research topics Electric batteries and Supercapacitors.
Papers by year
The five leading nations, papers by year
Share of papers, 2020–2024
Of papers with a known author nation; 25% have none and are left out.
- 1China39.7%52,213 papers
- 2United States9.4%12,291 papers
- 3India7.0%9,178 papers
- 4South Korea5.4%7,093 papers
- 5Germany3.8%4,984 papers
- 6United Kingdom2.9%3,851 papers
- 7Japan2.4%3,130 papers
- 8Australia2.4%3,093 papers
- 9Canada1.7%2,236 papers
- 10France1.6%2,092 papers
Leading institutions, 2020–2024
By fractional count: each paper divided among its authors' institutions.
- 1Central South University1,211fractional papers
- 2Tsinghua University849fractional papers
- 3Chinese Academy of Sciences832fractional papers
- 4Beijing Institute of Technology775fractional papers
- 5Harbin Institute of Technology638fractional papers
- 6Huazhong University of Science and Technology582fractional papers
- 7Xi'an Jiaotong University581fractional papers
- 8Wuhan University of Technology500fractional papers
- 9University of Science and Technology of China482fractional papers
- 10Guangdong University of Technology469fractional papers
Patents
Patent families by the nation of origin of their applicants and their earliest priority year, from the CPC and IPC classes the capability is read from. 2025 onwards is incomplete: families are published 18 months after priority.
Families by priority year
The five leading origins, families by year
24,275 applicants filed here in 2015–2024; the five largest held 18% of families (HHI 93 of 10,000: unconcentrated).
Share of families by origin, 2020–2024
- 1China60.9%158,520 families
- 2South Korea15.9%41,447 families
- 3Japan11.0%28,629 families
- 4United States4.3%11,190 families
- 5Germany3.6%9,425 families
- 6France0.9%2,449 families
- 7Taiwan0.5%1,338 families
- 8United Kingdom0.4%973 families
- 9Sweden0.3%825 families
- 10Italy0.3%689 families
Applicants filing most internationally, 2015–2024
Families filed in more than one office, by applicant as the offices name them.
- 1LG ENERGY SOLUTION LTD9,709international families
- 2CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY CO LTD7,305international families
- 3NINGDE CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECH CO LTD6,804international families
- 4SAMSUNG SDI CO LTD5,260international families
- 5TOYOTA MOTOR CORP4,290international families
- 6TOYOTA MOTOR CO LTD4,155international families
- 7LG CHEMICAL LTD3,852international families
- 8PANASONIC IP MAN CO LTD3,217international families
- 9CONTEMPORARY AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY HONG KONG LTD2,531international families
- 10NINGDE AMPEREX TECHNOLOGY LTD1,855international families
Classification read
- H01M Batteries: cells, electrodes, electrolytes, casings and manufacture · 9.6m documents
- H01G11/00 Supercapacitors and hybrid capacitors · 301.6k documents
Shares inventions with
Capabilities whose classes the same families also fall in, by overlap (Jaccard).
- Hydrogen, Ammonia & Sustainable Fuels7,707 families · 0.052
- Nanomaterials & Metamaterials2,334 families · 0.016
Companies
50 companies in this capability, across 8 regions. The leading 12:
- 1CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology)World's largest lithium-ion cell maker with roughly 38% of global EV battery installations, and a leading supplier of LFP and sodium-ion cells for EVs and stationary storage; also the second-largest international patent applicant in this field.Manufacture
- 2BYDSecond-largest battery maker worldwide; its FinDreams Battery unit makes the LFP Blade cell for its own EVs, outside automakers and energy-storage systems.Manufacture
- 3LG Energy SolutionLargest battery maker outside China, with plants in Korea, Poland, China and the US and the most international battery patent filings of any applicant.Manufacture
- 4Panasonic Holdings (Panasonic Energy)Panasonic Energy is the leading maker of cylindrical cells (2170 and 4680), Tesla's long-standing supplier, and runs gigafactories in Nevada and Kansas.Manufacture
- 5Samsung SDIMajor maker of prismatic and cylindrical EV and ESS cells, with a pilot line for all-solid-state batteries and US joint ventures with Stellantis and GM.Manufacture
- 6SK OnSK Innovation's battery subsidiary, making pouch NCM cells for Hyundai, Ford and VW at plants in Korea, the US, Hungary and China.Manufacture
- 7CALB GroupChina's third-largest EV battery maker, supplying Guangzhou Auto, Xpeng and others, and building a cell plant in Portugal.Manufacture
- 8Gotion High-TechLFP cell maker part-owned by Volkswagen, with overseas gigafactories in Morocco (Kenitra, 20 GWh, Africa's first), Slovakia, Vietnam and the US.Manufacture
- 9EVE EnergyOne of the top energy-storage cell suppliers and a maker of large cylindrical EV cells, with plants in Hungary and Malaysia.Manufacture
- 10TeslaMakes 4680 cells in-house and is one of the world's largest deployers of stationary storage (Megapack and Powerwall).Integration
- 11Sunwoda ElectronicLeading supplier of consumer-electronics battery packs and a fast-growing maker of EV and ESS cells.Manufacture
- 12Hithium Energy StorageAmong the top three makers of stationary-storage LFP cells worldwide, with a 5 GWh joint venture announced in Saudi Arabia and a plant in Texas.Manufacture