Roadmap
Where we're headed. Our development priorities and upcoming milestones.
Recent Accomplishments
BDF Specification Donated
Ohm.ai donates initial BDF specification to the Battery Data Alliance
Largest Open Source Contribution
199 cells across two common chemistries (NMC and LFP), each tested for 1,000 cycles under fully automated workflows
BDF Public Release
LF Energy publicly releases the Battery Data Format standard
Partnership Announcements
BattInfo Ontology, Faraday Institution PyProBE/BDX, Microsoft Open Battery Dataset, Ohm BDF Converter
batterydf on PyPI
Release of the batterydf Python package on PyPI
What's Next
BDF 1.0 & Dataset Donations
Finalized the Battery Data Format specification and grew the open data repository.
- BDF 1.0 stable release with complete documentation
- Microsoft Open Battery Dataset donation (9 cells, 3 manufacturers)
- Empa and digibatt join as contributing organizations
- IBSE March 23-26 (Microsoft Surface Battery Development Team Talk)
Community Expansion & Federated Data
Grow adoption through conferences, new contributor onboarding, and federated dataset partnerships.
- Battery2030+ Annual Conference May 7-8 (Simon Clark Talk)
- AABC Europe May 18-21 (Eibar Flores Talk)
- DigiBatt Symposium Oslo June 24-25 (Gabe Hege Talk)
- First distributed BDF dataset from partner institution
EIS Support
Extend BDF to support Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy data.
- EIS data schema for BDF
- Impedance data visualization in viewer
- Integration with existing EIS analysis tools
Coming Soon
More to announce — stay tuned.
Have ideas for the roadmap?
We'd love to hear what features and improvements matter most to you.