aviation electrification

TotalEnergies' Saft opens France's first solid-state battery production lines for aviation and space

French battery maker Saft, a TotalEnergies subsidiary, has inaugurated France's first solid-state battery production lines at its Bordeaux site, using sulphide and polymer electrolytes produced via a dry electrode process. The company has already delivered semi-solid-state cells to Safran for evaluating future electric and hybrid aircraft architectures.