need batteries that are cheaper, safer, and more energy dense. [2] The World Economic Forum projects that the annual battery production revenue will grow to 300 billion dollars per year by 2030. [3] This demand from the market is compounded by the ambitious goals of the Paris Agreement on climate change, which require the transition to renewable energy conversion and storage technologies. [4] The development and large-scale production of sustainable high-performance batteries is one of the most intensely pursued technical research topics in the world today. Bold action is needed to meet this challenge. A coordinated and comprehensive effort spanning research and industry must be undertaken to develop battery technologies that achieve the strict performance standards set by the market in a sustainable and cost-effective way.Battery data plays an essential role in accelerating the development of new materials, cell designs, models, operating protocols, and manufacturing processes. [5] Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) methods such as, machine learning (ML) promise to greatly accelerate and improve insights into battery manufacturing, performance, and lifetime. [6][7][8][9] AI methods require vast amounts of data to Battery research initiatives and giga-scale production generate an abundance of diverse data spanning myriad fields of science and engineering. Modern battery development is driven by the confluence of traditional domains of natural science with emerging fields like artificial intelligence and the vast engineering and logistical knowledge needed to sustain the global reach of battery Gigafactories. Despite the unprecedented volume of dedicated research targeting affordable, high-performance, and sustainable battery designs, these endeavours are held back by the lack of common battery data and vocabulary standards, as well as, machine readable tools to support interoperability. An ontology is a data model that represents domain knowledge as a map of concepts and the relations between them. A battery ontology offers an effective means to unify battery-related activities across different fields, accelerate the flow of knowledge in both human-and machine-readable formats, and support the integration of artificial intelligence in battery development. Furthermore, a logically consistent and expansive ontology is essential to support battery digitalization and standardization efforts, such as, the battery passport. This review summarizes the current state of ontology development, the needs for an ontology in the battery field, and current activities to meet this need.