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Experts without spare capacity
Your battery experts are busy with development and delivery. There is little time left to design training, prepare learning materials or onboard new colleagues.
The video-based learning platform for your team. Build practical battery expertise without creating your own training programme — developed by battery scientist Tom Bötticher.
What slows your team down at work
Your battery experts are busy with development and delivery. There is little time left to design training, prepare learning materials or onboard new colleagues.
Engineering, sales and management bring different levels of knowledge. This makes collaboration harder and adds time to internal discussions and customer conversations.
In-person training uses budget, working hours and organisational effort. Schedules need to align while projects and customer work continue.
New battery technologies are announced constantly. Your team needs the technical understanding to assess opportunities for products, customers and new business models.
Battery test data is available, but not everyone knows how to interpret it. Without shared understanding, key questions keep landing with the same few specialists.
Your employees build a shared technical foundation. They understand what affects performance, lifespan and safety, and can have more focused discussions with your experts.
Your employees can assess technical developments and market claims. This helps them evaluate new applications and business models on a sound technical basis.
Battery Essentials handles the fundamentals. Your team learns independently with ready-made content, giving specialists more time for development, customers and complex challenges.
Technical books require substantial independent work. Relevant material still needs to be selected, explained clearly and connected to everyday work.
Individual papers explore specialist topics. They do not provide an accessible, shared foundation for employees with different levels of experience.
Your specialists know the technology. But effective training also takes time, structure and clear explanations — on top of a full project schedule.
Fixed dates, travel and repeat sessions complicate planning. New employees often have to wait for the next available session.
More than 40 video lessons across 9 topic chapters, handouts, quizzes and a final examination with a certificate: your team gets a structured path from the fundamentals to deeper understanding. You do not need to design a training programme or assemble learning materials.
Every theoretical concept is explained through real applications. Your team can understand technical decisions, advise customers more confidently and recognise opportunities for new products and business models.
Your employees learn when it fits their working day. They can pause, revisit and resume lessons whenever needed. Individual access makes onboarding easier without having to organise shared training sessions.
Regular updates and new lessons on emerging technologies help your team stay informed. Future updates and unlimited access are included, so you do not need to maintain the content yourself.
Battery Essentials presents current battery knowledge in a clear, modern, and highly accessible way — far more effective than traditional textbooks.
Energy Consultant
An excellent, compact course on batteries and their applications. Well structured, always on point, and directly relevant to my daily work.
Heat Pump Material Group Manager
A strong combination of fundamentals and practical knowledge. It refreshed my existing skills and provided new concepts I can apply immediately.
Master's Student in Chemistry
The content of Battery Essentials is more detailed and better than comparable training courses, which cost many times more. Almost a must for every company that has anything to do with e-mobility.
Project Engineer
Best course for interested beginners and advanced users in the battery world. The videos are very well structured, understandable and entertaining, at the best price. I feel well prepared for practical applications after the course. Thank you so much, keep it up!
Strategic buyer
The “Battery Essentials” training helped me to comprehensively expand my knowledge of battery technology and apply it in a practical way. I can recommend them to anyone who wants to continue their education in this area.
Technical sales
I needed a compact, fact-based course covering all essential battery topics. Battery Essentials exceeded my expectations and provides exactly the technical depth professionals need.
Automotive
The strong focus on practical applications and the clear explanations make this course extremely valuable. It significantly expanded my knowledge and even exceeded my expectations. A clear recommendation for anyone working in battery technology.
Project Manager in the Automotive Industry
Clear explanations of complex topics. A great introductory battery course to get started quickly. Highly recommended.
Founder / CEO at smart-me
The course is really well structured and starts with the fundamentals.
Google review
A great course, with a complex topic explained clearly
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A very good course.
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I can only recommend the programme!
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My understanding of battery technology has improved enormously.
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The videos are very well structured, clear and engaging, at an unbeatable price.
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They go into depth without overcomplicating things.
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A clear recommendation for anyone interested in batteries!
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I found the content exciting and refreshingly clear.
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A really detailed course, created with great attention to detail.
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The lessons are logically organised and build on each other, enabling structured and effective learning.
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Great online training in the basics of battery technology.
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Battery Essentials makes current knowledge clear and accessible to everyone.
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Very solid and clear content.
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A great learning platform with well-developed and well-presented content.
Google review
This course is very thorough and detailed.
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Very good online training, clearly explained.
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A very clear and comprehensive course, without unnecessary information.
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Battery Essentials is the course anyone should take, who really wants to dive into the fascinating world of batteries.
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Individual access for your team, unlimited use and future updates. Request a licence package that fits your organisation.
YOUR TEAM. A SHARED FOUNDATION.
The video-based learning platform for businesses — scientifically grounded, practical and ready to use without developing your own training.
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Tom Bötticher combines battery research and industry experience with ten years of science communication. This combination helps teams understand complex connections and apply their knowledge at work.
As a chemistry graduate, he specialised in battery storage early on: at the MEET Battery Research Center in Münster, then with battery pioneer Prof. Jeff Dahn at Dalhousie University in Canada. In collaboration with Tesla, he and his team identified a cause of unwanted self-discharge — a finding with direct relevance to battery manufacturing that attracted worldwide media coverage.
He also brings practical industry experience as co-founder of Litona, where the team develops high-performance sodium-ion energy storage in Ulm, Germany. On YouTube, he now reaches over a million viewers each month and more than 150,000 subscribers. He makes battery technology and electric mobility accessible through explanations that are scientifically grounded, clear and entertaining.
He founded Battery Essentials in 2023 to share this experience: He distils his knowledge into the essentials, explains connections step by step and links theory to real applications. This enables employees to understand batteries, contribute to technical discussions and make informed decisions at work. His goal is to inspire enthusiasm for science and help shape a sustainable future.
Battery Essentials is for teams who want to understand and apply battery technology, including engineering, sales, consulting and management. The content starts with the fundamentals before exploring topics in detail. A science background helps, but is not required to get started.
Your team gets access to over 40 video lessons with more than 5 hours of content, plus formula sheets, PDF handouts, quizzes and a final examination with a certificate. Topics range from battery chemistry and cell manufacturing to lifespan, testing, sodium-ion batteries, battery systems and recycling. Explore the chapters and lessons here.
The content is already structured and clearly explained. You do not need to design introductory training, record videos or create handouts. Employees build a shared foundation independently, allowing your specialists to focus on company-specific questions and their projects.
Tell us how many licences you need. After purchase, you receive a voucher code for your employees. They register individually and receive an email to set a password for their personal ablefy account. Lessons can be accessed and revisited at any time.
A single licence costs €199. Team licences are available from €159 per person; your specific quote depends on the number required. Contact info@batteryessentials.de. VAT is shown on the invoice. Please provide your company details and, where applicable, your VAT identification number when purchasing.
Yes. Battery Essentials for Teams PLUS combines video lessons with tailored live training and Q&A sessions, either online or at your premises. We agree the topics, scope and price with you. Request a tailored quote.
Your employees receive unlimited access to the video lessons, including future updates. They can revisit the fundamentals and explore new technologies without you having to maintain an internal training programme.
