EV Battery Webinar: Quantumscape’s new cell format combines advantages of prismatic and pouch cells

EV Battery Webinar: Quantumscape’s new cell format combines advantages of prismatic and pouch cells

QuantumScape’s solid-state lithium-metal battery technology is designed to enable greater energy density, faster charging and enhanced safety compared to conventional lithium-ion batteries. 

However, lithium metal has some unique characteristics that we believe require innovations in cell architecture to address the uniaxial expansion of lithium metal as it plates and strips during charging and discharging. In response, QuantumScape developed a new cell format – FlexFrame – a hybrid of conventional pouch and prismatic cell designs intended to enable a technological step-change improvement through elegant simplicity of design. 

In this webinar, Associate Professor of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan, Venkat Viswanathan, QuantumScape’s Principal Product Lead, Chris Dekmezian, and Senior Director of Cell Design & Manufacturing, Daniel Braithwaite, discuss the innovation behind FlexFrame. 

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