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The overall aim of the BATTERY 2030+ large scale research initiative is to invent the batteries of the future by providing breakthrough technologies to the European battery industry across the full value chain and enable long-term European leadership in both existing markets (road transport, stationary energy storage) and future emerging applications (robotics, aerospace, medical devices, internet of things) What kind of batteries will we see in the future? Almost all technical roadmaps for batteries, including the European SET Plan Action 7 outline different generations of battery chemistries, describing their energy storage performances and when in time we can expect them to reach these capacities and become a product on the market. These predictions are all moving targets. The BATTERY 2030+ initiative on the other hand suggests long-term research directions based on a “chemistry neutral approach”. The research actions proposed will enable the exploration of several different kinds of battery chemistries, existing and future, to reach their full potentials by closing the gap between their respective practical capacity and theoretical limit. The ideas that the BATTERY 2030+ initiative propose will allow Europe to reach and overcome the ambitious battery performance targets agreed upon in the SET-plan as well as giving Europe a competitive edge on future sustainable battery technologies. In addition, the BATTERY 2030+ long-term roadmap perfectly complements and give a solid knowledge foundation that can feed into the more short- to medium-term research and innovation efforts within ETIP BatteRIes Europe – the European Technology and Innovation Platform (ETIP) . BATTERY 2030+ initiative has formulated the needs for the next-generation green batteries as a full range of properties which differs depending on application and purpose: • Ultra-high-performance batteries close to their theoretical limits, while being inherently reliable and safe. Higher energy densities will allow electric vehicles to travel longer distances and open a host a multitude of future applications to electrification, including commercial flights, advanced robotics, and exoskeleton systems. In addition, eliminating thermal runaway reactions at cell level will drastically improve safety. This will lead to simplifications of battery pack design and increase the energy density at the pack level. Finally, the battery cost will be considerably reduced both at cell and pack level. • Full sustainability to minimize the environmental footprint of batteries over their full life cycle (raw materials, manufacturing process, first and second life and recycling). Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle, the three R principle of a circular economy, will be the guiding principle for future technology development. • Smart battery functionalities to revolutionize both the performance and safety of battery systems. The smart battery concept enables unprecedented levels of performances, durability and safety across all levels of the battery system. By allowing the smart battery to fully communicate and interact with the other parts of the power system, the operation can be fine-tuned to the needs of the application, according to the principles of cyber-physical systems. Furthermore, the development of self-healing and self-adapting materials will take battery lifetime to new levels.