(24 April 2017) The goal of MARS-EV is to create innovative materials for lithium-ion high-energy batteries that are safer and more resistant to aging and are of a low environmental impact for electronic mobility. MARS-EV is a European project involving Enea (Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy, and Sustainable Economic Development) and other fifteen companies including universities and research centres from five different countries, including high-profile institutions such as the Polytechnic of Turin, Fraunhofer ISE and KIT-HIU (Germany), Imperial College (UK), Tel Aviv University (Israel) and IK4-CIDETEC coordinator (Spain). Specifically, the project aims to achieve electrochemical lithium-ion storage systems for electronic mobility with much higher performance - up to 250 Wh kg-1 of accumulated energy compared to the current 150 Wh kg-1. The project, which cost a total of 9 million euros, was launched in October 2013 and will end in September 2017.

MARS-EVF

Among the changes presented, materials for safer and longer lasting high-energy lithium-ion batteries in terms of charge and discharge cycles, with the aim of achieving a pre-industrial cell prototype that is more sustainable and reproducible in different sizes. A specific mathematical model has been created to take into account the aging of component parts and the need to ensure the optimal recovery of waste material at the end of a battery cell's life.