As battery innovation for electric vehicles progresses, it’s crucial to avoid regrettable substitutions—simply replacing one harmful chemical or material with another.
Watch the first webinar in a new series co-hosted by the Collaboratory for a Regenerative Economy (CoRE) and the Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives (GAIA). This series brings together interdisciplinary stakeholders to explore how accelerating battery design decision-making processes—from the molecular scale to neighborhood impact—can lead to significant advances in safety, awareness, community resilience, and battery performance.
This webinar, Accelerating More Sustainable EV Battery Design Processes from Molecules to Neighborhoods, spotlights how real-time environmental monitoring, citizen science, and equitable data integration can shape more just and responsible approaches to battery materials discovery and development. It will also explore how data-driven design can be utilized to help eliminate hazardous substances in EV battery production, offering pathways for collaborative, community-informed innovation throughout the battery materials lifecycle. This webinar series and discussions will explicitly address both performance pressures and environmental justice priorities, with a focus on centering the experiences and leadership of the most impacted communities.
