MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: China’s EV giants join forces for 25-ton capacity solid-state elec

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: China’s EV giants join forces for 25-ton capacity solid-

China is stepping up efforts to advance solid-state battery technology with a new pilot project in Beijing. Officially called the “All-Solid-State Electrolyte Pilot Production and Testing Validation Capability Construction Project”, the project is led by Guolian Automotive Power Battery Research Institute.

The initiative focuses on the research, testing, and validation of solid-state electrolyte materials, the key components that determine the performance and safety of all-solid-state batteries. 

Backed by a consortium that includes a central state-owned enterprise, the project also counts Chinese giants CATL and SAIC Motor as shareholders. This effort is part of a wider industry push supported by emerging national standards and growing industrial investment in next-generation battery technologies.

Pilot facility for solid-state electrolytes

The project will be established in Beijing’s Yanqi Economic Development Zone in Huairou District, using an existing industrial building repurposed for laboratory and pilot-scale operations. Plans include a solid-state battery materials experimental line, equipped with high-precision characterization instruments and intelligent control systems, with 103 pieces of equipment set for procurement.

The facility is expected to reach a research and pilot output of around 25 tons of solid-state electrolyte materials per year. Designed as a pilot and validation platform rather than a mass-production plant, the project will help build China’s industrial expertise and supply chain for solid-state batteries, even as full commercial deployment is still several years away, CarNewsChina writes.

Solid-state electrolytes are seen as a key component for next-generation all-solid-state batteries, which use solid materials instead of traditional liquid electrolytes. While these batteries are considered the future of automotive power systems, they have yet to reach large-scale commercial production. 

Significant technical challenges remain, though, including high resistance at solid–solid interfaces, the formation of lithium dendrites, and mechanical stress that builds up during repeated charging and discharging cycles.

China intensifies its push for solid-state battery infrastructure

The industrial supply chain for all-solid-state batteries is still in its early stages, and production costs remain relatively high. China has recently issued a consultation draft for its first national standard on solid-state batteries, signaling that regulatory and policy frameworks are starting to support the industry.

Thus, the newly approved Beijing pilot project reflects a broader push within China’s battery sector to establish shared infrastructure for research, pilot-scale testing, and validation of solid-state battery materials. Such initiatives aim to strengthen the industrial knowledge base and prepare the market for future large-scale production.

Building on this industry push, the Guolian Automotive Power Battery Research Institute unites central and local state-owned capital, major automakers, and key battery suppliers. Its shareholders include Youyan Technology Group, fully owned by China’s central government, along with FAW Group, Dongfeng Motor, BAIC Group, Changan Automobile, GAC Group, Yutong Bus, Huachen (Brilliance Auto), CATL, BTR, Neusoft Reach, and Tianjin Lishen. 

Another shareholder, Huading New Power Fund, is backed by local state-owned entities such as Nanning Industrial Investment Group and Sichuan Energy Group. Guolian has long acted as a collaborative innovation platform, participating in national and local programs to advance China’s battery technology and foster industry-wide cooperation.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: The Large Hadron Collider Is Being Shut Down Edisi Jam 2

The Large Hadron Collider is going to be shut down — not permanently, but for a pretty long time — and the famous atom smasher’s eventual final retirement is also something that top scientists are now considering.

A 16-mile ring-shaped tunnel near the Swiss-French border, the underground particle accelerator is designed to replicate the cosmos’s extreme conditions shortly after the big bang by whipping up particles to near light speed, at which point physics begins to become extremely weird and counterintuitive. In 2012, scientists used the LHC to discover the existence of the Higgs boson, an elementary particle that, through incredibly esoteric quantum properties, is essentially responsible for giving all other particles their mass.

Even something responsible for one of the most important scientific discoveries in history needs a facelift, however. Beginning in June, engineers will start upgrading the device so that it can carry out ten times the number of particle collisions it currently can do, something that will allow for far more experiments to be conducted, yielding still more troves of data. The project, dubbed the high-luminosity LHC, will take some five years to complete — and while surely worth it in the long run, that’s an immense amount of down time.

Rest assured, the LHC won’t be going dark without leaving physicists quite a bit of homework to complete before its return, according to Mark Thomson, the new director general of CERN, the intergovernmental organization and physics lab that oversees the particle accelerator.

“The machine is running brilliantly and we’re recording huge amounts of data,” Thomson, a professor of experimental particle physics at the University of Cambridge, told The Guardian. “There’s going to be plenty to analyze over the period. The physics results will keep on coming.”

The LHC will be offline during almost all of Thomson’s term, which started on New Year’s Day. In fact, CERN doesn’t expect the high-luminosity LHC to be operational again until mid-2030. But while it may sound like Thomson is taking the reins at a less exciting period in the device’s history, he says he’s thrilled to be giving it a makeover. 

“It’s an incredibly exciting project,” Thomson told the newspaper. “It’s more interesting than just sitting here with the machine hammering away.”

Thomson is also taking charge as CERN is planning the LHC’s successor. The leading candidate to replace it, per The Guardian, is the gargantuan Future Circular Collider, which at a proposed 56 miles in circumference would make the Hadron look like the kiddie pool. The first stage, designed to smash together electrons and positrons — the latter are the former’s anti-matter counterpart — would be built in the late 2040s, with another stage taking its place in the 2070s to accelerate protons to even higher speeds.

The FCC’s fate, though, is anything but certain. Its slated cost of nearly $19 billion is too much for CERN to pay on its own, according to The Guardian, and there’s also questions swirling over whether huge particle accelerators represent the best way to probe some of the biggest questions in science, such as the nature of dark matter and dark energy.

Thomson, though, is still a believer in the big atom smasher.

“We’ve not got to the point where we have stopped making discoveries and the FCC is the natural progression. Our goal is to understand the universe at its most fundamental level,” he told The Guardian. “And this is absolutely not the time to give up.”

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