Let's Talk! High-Quality and Safety in Lithium-ion Cell and Battery Manufacturing

03/09/22 • 28 min

Our guest for episode 3 of the Let's Talk! Podcast Series is Mr. Takefumi Inoue, General Manager, Industrial Lithium-ion Battery Department at GS Yuasa International Ltd.
He talks to us about high-quality and safety in lithium-ion cell and battery manufacturing. He also throws light on the different design stages and shares his insights on the significance of standards to ensure safety and quality of cells and batteries during their manufacturing.

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Transcript

Introduction:

Lithium-ion cells and batteries have become the battery chemistry of choice for a multitude of applications from consumer devices to large EV and stationary grid energy storage (ESS) applications as well as in marine and space applications.

With the number of fires observed in EVs and ESS in the field, several reasons have been provided for the cause of fires. One of the important factors that is overlooked is the quality of the cell and battery ma