Lead in Cell Manufacturing with the full BatteryMBA

Roughly two-thirds of an EV's bill of materials and the dominant share of a BESS project's cost sit in the cell. The world is on track to need north of 5 TWh per year of cell manufacturing capacity by 2030, five to six times today's installed base, and the gap between announced capacity and actually-shipped, qualified cells is widening. Western entrants in particular are learning that the hard part is not building the building; it is hitting yield on a qualified line within 24-36 months of mechanical completion.

The leaders winning at scale are rarely the ones who only understand production. They understand EV and BESS demand patterns, chemistry roadmaps, OEM qualification cycles, recycling economics and project finance, because all of those forces shape what gets built, when, and at what cost. The BatteryMBA is built around that full value chain, with cell-manufacturing-specific case studies, projects and peers woven throughout.

Participants follow a cell from raw materials through to shipping qualification. Active-material handling and slurry mixing; coating, drying and calendering; slitting, notching and stacking or winding; electrolyte filling; sealing and formation; ageing; end-of-line testing; and module assembly each get a dedicated module led by practitioners who have run those lines at scale. The programme covers the dominant 21700, 4680, prismatic-LFP, prismatic-NMC and pouch formats, and what changes on the line when you swap chemistry or geometry, alongside the EV and BESS modules that drive demand for each format.

Silicon-rich anodes (5-20% Si by mass) are now in volume production, full silicon anodes are scaling at multiple players, and solid-state pilot lines are running in Japan, Korea, Europe and the US. Each chemistry transition rewrites parts of the line, drying profiles, calendering pressures, formation protocols and dry-room dew points all shift. The programme covers what is mature, what is hype, and what the capex implications are for any new build between now and 2030, anchored in the downstream EV, BESS and recycling fundamentals the BatteryMBA teaches up front.