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DRY-SENSE addresses a critical bottleneck in Europe’s transition from conventional lithium-ion batteries to next-generation solid-state batteries (SSBs), which are essential for high-performance, safety-critical applications such as aviation, maritime transport, rail and premium mobility. While SSBs promise higher energy density, improved safety and longer lifetime, their industrial deployment is constrained by wet, solvent-based manufacturing processes that are energy-intensive, costly and poorly compatible with solid-state materials. DRY-SENSE aims to demonstrate a fully dry, solvent-free and energy-efficient manufacturing route for solid-state batteries at TRL 6 in a pilot coating-line industrial environment, enabling the upgrading of existing Generation-3 lithium-ion production lines through targeted retrofitting. The project combines advanced battery materials—including silicon-rich anodes, cobalt-reduced or cobalt-free cathodes, and next-generation polymer electrolytes—with fully dry manufacturing processes, notably multi-material extrusion and advanced roll-to-roll systems for electrode coating and electrolyte production.