Comparing Technical Criteria of Various Lithium-Ion Battery Cell Formats for Deriving Respective Market Potentials

In this paper, the three most common formats for lithium-ion batteries (pouch, cylindrical and prismatic) are compared in terms of 19 defined technical criteria. Furthermore, the importance of the respective criteria for different fields of application is determined, which in turn can be used to evaluate the suitability of the three formats for market-specific use. Therefore, an evaluation method was developed and carried out with the help of numerous experts from German research institutions and industry. As results, requirement profiles for the fields of application as well as performance profiles for the cell formats could be assigned.