BASE Vision

The long-term vision of the Centre is to address the energy storage challenges associated with the transition to a fossil-free society. The centre vision goes beyond this: the plan is to generate and spread knowledge and know-how by monitoring international activities in the field, by supporting companies dependent on this technology with a deeper understanding of the possibilities and limitations of energy storage, so that they can reap the full potential of advanced batteries in their products and services.

The centre vision in summary:

In continuation to our previous work in BASE 1.0, the long-term visions of BASE 2.0 are to:

1. Create a world-class and internationally recognized academic battery research environment in Sweden with a focus on battery materials, components, and systems and relevance over the entire battery value chain.
2. Establish a dedicated industrial environment for electrochemical energy storage, involving SMEs and multinational corporations, with cell fabrication, testing, and environmental analysis of storage devices in end-user applications as core competences.
3. Nurture a cross-fertilizing community between academia and industry to promote the rapid implementation of new scientific breakthroughs into industrial applications, thereby increasing Sweden’s ability to compete in a future battery market. The objective is to facilitate an optimal use the involved universities and research institutes for supporting industrial battery research and development as well as for training a future workforce through master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral programs.
4. Provide a dynamic knowledge-based interface with society, to educate and involve organizations with battery relevance that are not active in the battery industry or in battery research. These could be societal organizations, governmental bodies, industrial and private end-users, school students and teachers, the general public, etc. Their experiences, opinions, and questions are vital for BASE to be relevant in the broader context of carrying out the transformation to electrification.

The strategy to realise BASE long-term visions

The underlying strategy is to base all activities on the excellent research carried out by the participants within three different broad themes. Scientists and companies will interact to break-down the unmet needs into projects based on specified problems to be solved.

• Methods
• Materials
• Cells
• Cross-cutting Activities