
The Battery Show 2025 is set for October 6th to 9th next year, meeting again at Huntington Place in Detroit.
The Battery Show 2024 is one for the books! North America’s largest advanced battery event successfully took over Huntington Place in downtown Detroit last week, featuring a host of educational sessions and the latest market insights and innovations.
You can view a snapshot of the technologies specific to the electric vehicle (EV) industry here in the first part of our show coverage. Below are a few more noteworthy products. With more than 1,200 exhibitors, it’s clear e-mobility is gaining significant developments. It will be interesting to see what the next year has in store for further advancing EVs.
The Battey Show just released its 2025 plans and will return to Huntington Place in Detroit from October 6th to 9th, 2025.
Creating quality
As quality counts in manufacturing, especially for batteries, Thermo Fisher Scientific offers the LInspector Edge In-line Mass Profilometer, a process metrology tool for battery manufacturing. LInspector Edge sets a new benchmark for electrode coating quality assurance, fully measuring a coated electrode in real-time without scanning or moving parts.

With the LInspector Edge In-line Mass Profilometer, battery manufacturers gain a secure foundation for precise process control and the ability to ensure high levels of quality and performance.
“What I’ve noticed in the battery market is that new players are doubling down on quality,” said Jay Onye, business development manager with Thermo Fisher Scientific. “What we offer is quality — such as with the LInspector Edge, which offers 100% quality assurance for defects, ensuring excellent process control and the highest quality of electrode coatings.”
The system simultaneously captures spatial and coating data for full-width basis weight and profile uniformity analysis. It delivers high precision and captures data at full production speeds, generating high-resolution images rather than relying on limited spot measurements.
This results in 1,000 times more coating profile weight data than conventional gauges, enabling the detection of non-uniformities that other technologies miss.
The new black
Earlier this spring, Orion S.A. began construction on a new plant in Texas, which will be the only facility in America manufacturing acetylene-based conductive additives for lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries. This includes the production of its PRINTEX kappa 100, an acetylene-based conductive additive developed to improve Li-ion battery performance. It enables higher electrical conductivity, higher power densities, and longer battery life than other carbon blacks.
Furthermore, this high-performance acetylene black has an extremely low metal impurity, including grit and ash content.
“PRINTEX kappa 100 is super clean because it’s produced from acetylene, a highly purified gas that decomposes into hydrogen and carbon complex. So, there are no impurities,” explained Dr. Adrian Steinmetz, Orion’s global VP for conductive additives. “This is a significant feature, as other carbon complexes are being produced by burning oil, which is not environmental.”
PRINTEX kappa 100, produced by the exothermic decomposition of acetylene gas, shows the lowest CO2 emission among high conductive carbon black grades. It also doesn’t contribute to side reactions, leading to a low self-discharge and long battery cycle life. The sustainable chemistry of its production reduces greenhouse gas emissions, reducing the carbon footprint along the battery value chain.
Creating better binders
A battery cell is key to converting chemical to electrical energy in an EV. The cell contains an anode, cathode, electrolyte, and a separator.
The particles of the active material are held together with a special binder. Although important, using more binders doesn’t necessarily equate to a more effective battery. Arkema has developed a solution that reduces the number used.
“We’re continually working to develop more efficient binders in a manner that allows for the use of less binder,” said Woldemar D’Ambrieres, global market manager for Batteries with Arkema. “Why? Well, this allows for more active materials, which means a more energy-dense battery — and hence, better overall range.”
When a battery is connected to an external circuit, chemical reactions generate energy. Arkema’s solutions optimize the chemical reactions inside the cell to boost battery performance. Arkema’s Incellion Sp, for example, are acrylic-based binders for battery separators that improve mechanical, thermal, and chemical stability, ensuring safety and performance for reliable lithium-ion battery operation.
“We are also working on electrolyte salts to improve battery conductivity inside the cell, which improves the charging time.” Learn more here.

The enhanced EA BTS 10300 Battery Test System offers top-industry power density and high-voltage capacity, making it ideal for the EV industry.
Testing, testing, testing
Testing and cycling are essential for ensuring the safety, performance, and longevity of batteries by simulating real-world conditions and optimizing efficiency. Now there’s a compact, automated battery cycler and test system, designed as a direct response to the challenges faced by manufacturers in testing electric vehicle batteries.
The EA BTS 10300 Battery Test System from EA Elektro-Automatik, a Tektronix brand, offers high power density with 300 kW in a single 42U-high rack, requiring only 6.5 square feet of floor space. This smaller footprint is a key benefit for the EV market, with scalable testing up to 3.84 MW through parallel rack configurations.
“EA BTS 10300 complements Tektronix’s portfolio by adding advanced battery testing capabilities, crucial for the evolving needs of the EV market,” said James Hitchcock, GM at Tektronix. “EA’s focus on innovation and efficiency matches the Tektronix commitment to delivering high-quality, reliable testing solutions.”
The EA BTS 10300 offers an unmatched 2000 Vdc capacity for high-voltage EV battery testing, supplying and sinking up to 2,400 A per rack for a total of 30,720 A. This makes it ideal for rigorous battery module and cell tests, including high-current pulse testing — previously achievable only with custom-built systems.
Now, the 10300 Series delivers high-level functionality as a turnkey solution, encompassing battery cycling, drive cycle simulations, insulation resistance tests, and more. What’s more? The system reduces electrical costs by regenerating power back to the grid with up to 96.5% efficiency.
Splitting power
The increasing demand for improved electric powertrain performance has made wiring and managing harness structures increasingly challenging. Manufacturing company Huber+Suhner has devised a solution that addresses this while significantly reducing weight, space, and ownership costs.

High-voltage cable routing is no longer a challenge, thanks to this innovative High-Voltage Power Splitter.
The High-Voltage Power Splitter (HVPS) offers flexible connection options and a compact design that simplifies cable routing. A touch-proof “black box” enclosure and semi-pluggable RADOX EV-C 2 interface ensure reliable, long-lasting connections, enhancing the handling of high-voltage wiring harnesses.
Ultimately, the Power Splitter ensures the efficient distribution of power in electrified vehicles without compromise.
Here are a few of the HVPS’s benefits:
- Allows wiring harnesses to be reliably connected at different angles to ensure the optimal routing of cable assemblies.
- Enables users to build a high-voltage architecture based on a standardized element, providing freedom in scaling the desired size of the system.
- Raises the safe assembly and servicing of wiring harnesses with a quick and reliable mating procedure.
- Harmonization with the RADOX EV-C 2 interface (standard or flex cables) and the RADOX high-voltage cables guarantees performance in challenging conditions and heavy-duty applications.
Recycling batteries
As more EVs hit the roads, the demand and dependence on lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries continue to grow. But what happens when Li-ion batteries reach the end of their service lives? That’s a question Bosch Rexroth asked… and is answering.
The company, well-known for its automated manufacturing systems, now offers an industrial automation solution for deep-discharging batteries. Only fully discharged batteries can be safely shredded and broken down into their chemical components for recycling.

Under optimal conditions, recycling can enable the recovery and reuse of up to 95% of a battery’s chemical elements (including nickel, cobalt, copper, and lithium). In this image from Bosch Rexroth, 95% is symbolized by the vehicle parts painted green. The remaining 5% is represented by the parts painted black.
“This process used to take 24 hours to do so manually,” explained John Atchison, product manager, High-Speed Conveyance, Bosch Rexroth. “Now, we’re looking at less than 15 minutes.” This system is faster and safer, ensuring optimum protection for workers and significantly reducing the risk of fire later on.
By recycling the batteries, up to 95% of the chemical elements can be fed back into the battery production process, which is a critical part of a sustainable circular industry. Bosch Rexroth’s introductory system to industrial recycling offers the potential for rapid scaling.
Fastening for safer EVs
Fasteners hold many of the world’s parts together, including many EV components. Case-in-point: SPIROL’s Press-N-Lok Pins offer several advantages for EV charging door handles. These pins have barbs that provide high retention in plastics, offering quick assembly and lower application costs. They’re corrosion-free and concealed within the final product after the assembly process.

This EV charing door handle representation uses eight Press-N-Lok Pins, which are easy to install and provide high retention.
“The Press-N-Lok Pins are permanent, tamper-resistant fasteners that are hidden once an application is together, providing an aesthetic finish,” said Christie Jones, VP of Marketing, SPIROL, a global manufacturer of engineered fasteners. “Most notably, using these pins in an electric handle protects users from any exposure to the electronics inside the handle, as the installed pins are highly secure and will not loosen.”
The company also offers compression limiters (CL), proving an ideal solution for EV battery trays. Metal CLs maintain the integrity of a plastic assembly’s’ bolted joint and protect it from the compressive forces exerted during bolt assembly.
“Compression limiters provide spot reinforcement of the metal, safeguarding plastic battery trays while ensuring a strong connection throughout the life of the assembly.”
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