Michel Armand, researcher at CIC energiGUNE, the Basque research center of reference in electrochemical and thermal energy storage and a member of the Basque Research & Technology Alliance-BRTA, has brought to light before the principal agents of the sector of electric mobility in Spain and Portugal the necessity on betting on the solid-state battery with regard to the possible development of a powerful industry of the battery. Armand, creator of numerous energy storage technologies being used nowadays, has been the person in charge of offering the keynote conference at the first Iberian Battery Summit, organized by Innoenergy and which has gathered virtually the main companies and centers implicated in the development of the electric vehicle, such as SEAT or Iberdrola.

CIC energiGUNE has also been present thanks to doctor Montse Casas-Cabanas, Scientific Coordinator of the Electrochemichal area of the center, who has taken part in the roundtable of the event’s closure along with representatives from IREC, Tecnalia, INL and Vasco da Gama CoLAB. All of them have had the chance to discuss about the expectation of development in the peninsula about the “battery of the future”, as well as analyzing the stage drawn by Michel Armand around the solid-state batteries, its current state and future applications.