Abstract: Ministry of Science and Technology of the People’s Republic of China (MOST) initiates national new energy vehicles pilot project in 2015 for next 5 years. Totally 19 projects are announced in 2016. The project 1.1 is a 5-year fundamental research type project (2016—2020) with a 32M ￥ budget，aiming to increase the energy density of EV batteries. Two targets are purposed: 400 W·h/kg for Li-ion batteries and 500 W·h/kg for new batteries. After 3 rounds review and defense, a team led by Peaking University wins the project. The title of the project is “Key technology and basic science problem reach for high energy density lithium batteries”. Scientific problems and technologies of three types batteries will be studied: 400 W·h/kg lithium ion batteries, 500 W·h/kg Li-S batteries and 500 W·h/kg Li-air batteries. This project includes 10 institutes and two companies as partners.

Key words: high energy density Li-ion batteries, key technologies, basic science problems, Li-S batteries, Li-air batteries