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He also acts as a liaison to the press. He has a PhD in electrochemistry from the University of Nottingham.","https://www.linkedin.com/in/birdmatthew/",{"type":561,"content":562},"doc",[563,570,575,580,585,590,597,602,607,612,617,622,629,634,639,644,649,654,659,666,669,674,679,684,689,696,701,706,715,722,727,732,737,742,747],{"type":564,"attrs":565,"content":566},"paragraph",{"textAlign":49},[567],{"text":568,"type":569},"Dyson announced that it would be exiting the electric vehicle race. But with this news there are signs it is pivoting to focus on solid state batteries.","text",{"type":564,"attrs":571,"content":572},{"textAlign":49},[573],{"text":574,"type":569},"Dyson’s high profile exit from its electric vehicle (EV) development in early-October was met with a good amount of press coverage as a harbinger of things to come for those seeking to brave 21st century automotive production.",{"type":564,"attrs":576,"content":577},{"textAlign":49},[578],{"text":579,"type":569},"For many years now, the automotive space has warned new entrants that it is a high volume, low margin business and that anyone making new vehicles would be crazy to attempt such a feat. The essence of an automotive OEM is to drive the cost of each and every component of a car down each year, buying each of their items for under market price and therefore dominating the supply chain.",{"type":564,"attrs":581,"content":582},{"textAlign":49},[583],{"text":584,"type":569},"There is a culture within the automotive industry which views supply chains as there to serve the OEM. The school of thought from new developers is that successful EV production is about developing intellectual property (IP) first – through chemistry, electrical engineering and software – and supply chain second.",{"type":564,"attrs":586,"content":587},{"textAlign":49},[588],{"text":589,"type":569},"Of course, the answer is that this nascent stage for EVs lies somewhere in the middle.",{"type":564,"attrs":591,"content":592},{"textAlign":49},[593,595],{"text":594,"type":569},"And this is where Dyson, the UK’s most high-profile technology-focus company famous for reinventing the vacuum cleaner and expanding",{"text":596,"type":569},"into a vast array of electrical appliances including air purifiers and hand dryers, has found itself.",{"type":564,"attrs":598,"content":599},{"textAlign":49},[600],{"text":601,"type":569},"After spending three years developing a prototype that many believed was going to be the revival of the UK car sector, the reality set in that Dyson’s developers could not yet make good enough margins.",{"type":564,"attrs":603,"content":604},{"textAlign":49},[605],{"text":606,"type":569},"“Though we have tried very hard throughout the development process, we simply cannot make it commercially viable,” Founder James Dyson explained.",{"type":564,"attrs":608,"content":609},{"textAlign":49},[610],{"text":611,"type":569},"“We have been through a serious process to find a buyer for the project which has, unfortunately, been unsuccessful so far,” he added.",{"type":564,"attrs":613,"content":614},{"textAlign":49},[615],{"text":616,"type":569},"The reality is that Dyson would have been a niche producer of high end vehicles with the market expecting a full production run of 10,000 vehicles per year.",{"type":564,"attrs":618,"content":619},{"textAlign":49},[620],{"text":621,"type":569},"Following the announcement Matthew Oliver, Engineering Lead (Automotive) at Dyson, who had worked on the project, gave his take on the decision: “a vehicle is rightfully influenced by the external rules and regulations that protect the consumers from harm…and thus, the solution tends toward the same answer – as it does in the Aerospace industry. Not to forget a business needs to make money from the products it sells.”",{"type":564,"attrs":623,"content":624},{"textAlign":49},[625,627],{"text":626,"type":569},"He continued “it’s a shame, but quite probably,",{"text":628,"type":569},"when the dust settles, it will be seen as the right decision.”",{"type":564,"attrs":630,"content":631},{"textAlign":49},[632],{"text":633,"type":569},"In summary, after three years of development Dyson truly worked out where the margins were in the complex EV supply chain – and that wasn’t in the vehicle itself, certainly for a low volume producer.",{"type":564,"attrs":635,"content":636},{"textAlign":49},[637],{"text":638,"type":569},"And this is where the most telling part of Dyson’s announcement lay:",{"type":564,"attrs":640,"content":641},{"textAlign":49},[642],{"text":643,"type":569},"“We will also concentrate on the formidable task of manufacturing solid state batteries and other fundamental technologies which we have identified: sensing technologies, vision systems, robotics, machine learning, and AI offer us significant opportunities which we must grab with both hands,” Dyson said.",{"type":564,"attrs":645,"content":646},{"textAlign":49},[647],{"text":648,"type":569},"“Our battery will benefit Dyson in a profound way and take us in exciting new directions. 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Dyson, one of the world’s most innovative and technology savvy companies, said it was going to build a multi-billion-dollar battery plant on the back of Sakti3’s patents as the centre piece to its manufacturing of EVs.",{"type":564,"attrs":675,"content":676},{"textAlign":49},[677],{"text":678,"type":569},"Many in the battery industry believed that the Dyson-Sakti3 deal was underpinned by over-promotion from founder, Ann Marie Sastry, leaving the company with more work than expected on the new battery technology.",{"type":564,"attrs":680,"content":681},{"textAlign":49},[682],{"text":683,"type":569},"Within two years of the acquisition Dyson had written off £46 million against Satki3. The mistakes in this project ultimately filtered through to its EV business.",{"type":564,"attrs":685,"content":686},{"textAlign":49},[687],{"text":688,"type":569},"“When you look at Dyon’s acquisition [of Satki3] it didn’t demonstrate a good understanding of the solid state space,” said Emily Hersh Managing Partner of DCDB group and fellow at the Payne Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.",{"type":564,"attrs":690,"content":691},{"textAlign":49},[692,694],{"text":693,"type":569},"Despite the failures of the Satki3, solid state is the great hope of many in the battery space but huge obstacles remain. Dyson’s continued investment into solid state research while",{"text":695,"type":569},"abandoning its EV pursuit shows it clearly has faith that these obstacles can be overcome.",{"type":564,"attrs":697,"content":698},{"textAlign":49},[699],{"text":700,"type":569},"The industry is yet to see any major developments in the solid state space at a commercial level and where these developments will come from remains unclear. Hersh explained that “there are a number of areas solid state developments could come from: start-ups, technology companies, and in-house from large manufacturers.”",{"type":564,"attrs":702,"content":703},{"textAlign":49},[704],{"text":705,"type":569},"“I expect to see more advances in solid state coming from large and experienced manufacturers with considerable resources, capable of funding a big in-house team. The experience and knowledge of these companies will be critical as the manufacturing challenges in developing solid state batteries are considerable,” she added.",{"type":564,"attrs":707,"content":708},{"textAlign":49},[709,711,713],{"text":710,"type":569},"The manufacturing challenges are multi-layered as Andy Leyland, Head of Supply Chain Strategy at ",{"text":712,"type":569},"Benchmark Mineral Intelligence ",{"text":714,"type":569},"explained: “for solid state, what’s needed is an economic way to manufacture, transport and attach a 20-micron thickness lithium metal film for the anode – without it cracking.”",{"type":564,"attrs":716,"content":717},{"textAlign":49},[718,720],{"text":719,"type":569},"Questions also remain surrounding the raw material costs facing solid state manufacturers. “At the core of the economics is lithium metal – this has to be significantly cheaper, which isn’t just about economies of scale, it means reducing the amount of energy used to produce the metal,",{"text":721,"type":569},"and new manufacturing techniques to achieve this besides today’s electrolysis method. You also have the problem that putting a fragile and volatile lithium metal anode in one of the harshest and unpredictable environments possible for a sustained period of time,” he said.",{"type":564,"attrs":723,"content":724},{"textAlign":49},[725],{"text":726,"type":569},"“These are big hurdles to overcome before you see a solid state powered car that is less than $100,000,” said Leyland.",{"type":564,"attrs":728,"content":729},{"textAlign":49},[730],{"text":731,"type":569},"However, Hersh does not expect to see electric vehicles to be the first solid state applications, “the first places we would see solid state technology deployed would be in military, drone or small-scale aviation applications. The necessity for energy density in these applications would justify the high cost,” she explained.",{"type":564,"attrs":733,"content":734},{"textAlign":49},[735],{"text":736,"type":569},"“Once we see solid state used in these areas then we are more likely to see meaningful developments in the electric vehicle space,” she added.",{"type":564,"attrs":738,"content":739},{"textAlign":49},[740],{"text":741,"type":569},"After a number of years exploring both the solid state and electric vehicle spaces Dyson has learned the cold hard realities of the supply chain.",{"type":564,"attrs":743,"content":744},{"textAlign":49},[745],{"text":746,"type":569},"“What they’ve realised, and to be honest, what they should have realised ages ago, is that the automotive business is about vehicle assembly efficiency, scale and low margins,” Leyland said.",{"type":564,"attrs":748,"content":749},{"textAlign":49},[750],{"text":751,"type":569},"“It’s actually not an attractive sector to get into compared to some of the other technologies Dyson are developing,” Leyland concluded.","Dyson announced that it would be exiting the electric vehicle race. But with this news there are signs it is pivoting to focus on solid state batteries. Dyson’s high profile exit from its electric vehicle (EV) development in early-October was met with a good amount of press coverage as a harbinger of things to come […]",[754],{"slug":552,"name":553,"content":755},{"job_title":555,"image":756,"bio":558,"linkedin":559},{"filename":557},"\u003C!--#storyblok#{\"name\": \"article\", \"space\": \"\", \"uid\": \"a204fbc6-4e24-4af1-b518-22a055fd86b1\", \"id\": \"\"}-->","article",[760,763],{"slug":761,"name":762},"batteries","Batteries",{"slug":764,"name":765},"critical-minerals","Critical Minerals","private",{"id":49,"alt":768,"name":768,"focus":768,"title":768,"source":768,"filename":769,"copyright":768,"fieldtype":770,"meta_data":771,"is_external_url":51},"","https://a.storyblok.com/f/287943243085208/6eb9b3610c/bm-sir-james-dyson-credit-eva-rinaldi-e1571741707883.jpg","asset",{"alt":768,"title":768,"source":768,"copyright":768},"Oct 25, 2019","25th October 2019",[],[],1784825415753]