2nd Battery Gartner Hype Cycle Insight & Safe Energy Strategy: The 2nd battery Gartner Hype Cycle indicates that battery safety technologies, including all-solid-state and immersion-cooling solutions, are currently experiencing both the trough of disillusionment and a simultaneous chasm.
Safe Energy’s Technology Development & Commercialization Strategy focuses on market-oriented, practical technology—leveraging aqueous- and oil-based impregnated cooling methods—to bridge the chasm and achieve sustainable growth in the evolving energy storage market.
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2025
Launch of Outsourced
Products
2026
Overcoming
the Chasm
2027
Securing In-House
Production Lines
2028
Market Expansion /
Establishing Growth Foundation
2029
IPO /
Accelerating Growth
2024~2025 Key Achievements
Conducted demonstration of immersion/impregnated safety battery prototypes
  • Performed lithium-ion battery fire tests to study fire characteristics and derive research insights
  • Established in-house venture and proprietary laboratory facilities
  • Developed aqueous immersion technology for mobility applications; selected for the BIRD (Business Innovation Research & Development) project by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups
  • Selected for standard aqueous-impregnated battery development for marine mobility by the Korea Institute of Marine Industry & Technology
  • Produced safety battery prototypes compliant with KS R 6100 standards (1.5 kWh class)
  • Completed hot-swap module development (order from Neuromeka) → Developed integrated control system for AMR applications
  • Secured supply order for AMR batteries based on aqueous paste technology → Proof-of-Concept with Twinny (2 units)
2026 Key Initiatives and Achievements
Crossed the chasm through the deployment of impregnated safety standard batteries
  • Certification of standard and customized safety batteries
  • Delivery of safety batteries for AMR/AGV applications via established infrastructure → Supplied to Twinny / POSCO (PoC for ~10 units) → Entered new AMR market (capturing ~0.02% of domestic market)
  • Established sales network for commercialization of new products → Power Bank prototypes for demonstration: 1.2–1.4 kWh → 5.0 kWh Power Banks for Hyundai Samho, Sujeong Tech, and POSTECH
  • Installed in-house production lines and machinery
2027 Key Initiatives and Milestones
Market expansion through in-house production of standard batteries (AMR, ESS / Power Banks)
  • Completion of in-house standard battery production lines
  • Establishment of a comprehensive safety battery lineup
  • Supply of hot-swap safety batteries for AMR applications → Customers: Neuromeka, Twinny, Polaris3D
  • Business development for market expansion
  • Identified new customers in robotics and ESS (Power Banks)
  • Certification completed for global market entry
2028 Key Initiatives and Milestones
Full-scale commercialization of safety battery sales in adjacent markets and traditional industries (AMR, Mobility)
  • AMR battery sales ramp-up through certification and technology advancement → Customers: POSCO, Samsung Display
  • Full-scale supply of safety standard batteries for mobility applications
  • Full-scale supply of Power Banks for shipyard welding applications
  • Upgraded safety battery products and strengthened portfolio for entry into large-scale and advanced industrial sectors, leveraging accumulated technological expertise
2029 Key Initiatives and Milestones
Accelerated growth through entry into large-scale and advanced industrial markets (Mobility, Humanoids)
  • Planned IPO in 2029
  • Targeting KRW 20 billion in revenue through supply of hot-swap batteries for two-wheelers, marine mobility, UAM, and humanoid applications
  • Technology advancement for automotive market supply
  • Facility expansion and establishment of mass-production systems