Franco-Swiss chemical engineer Victor Herold founds “La Société Industrielle des Accumulateurs Alcalins” (S.I.A.A.), based on Edison and Jungner technology, in Romainville, France. World War I prevents production from starting. 

S.I.A.A. production starts. Name change to “La Société des Accumulateurs Fixes et de Traction” (S.A.F.T.), which manufactures and distributes nickel-based batteries for industrial applications. Some of the first Saft batteries are used to power luggage trolleys in Paris railway stations.

Acquisition of Saft by Compagnie Générale d’Electricité (later to become Alcatel). 

French submarine Ouessant equipped with Saft's nickel-cadmium battery. Even if the submarine was underwater at a depth of 15 meters for two years (1940-1942), the battery remained intact.

Inauguration of Saft’s Bordeaux factory in France. 

Acquisition of “La Pile Leclanché”, whose roots can be traced back to around 1880 when they first began producing Georges Leclanché’s revolutionary battery.

Creation of the subsidiary Saft Corporation of America.

Saft files its first patents on primary lithium. 

Inauguration of Saft’s Poitiers factory in France.

Launch of the Diapason 1A satellite on February 17, 1966.

Li-SOCl2 electrochemistry discovered by Saft.

Concorde prototypes make their first flights using Saft nickel-based batteries.

Inauguration of Saft’s first US factory in Valdosta, Georgia.  

Inauguration of Saft’s Nersac factory in France.

Acquisition of the Gould Battery Company, representing Saft’s first manufacturing capability of nickel-based portable cells in North America.

Acquisition of Alcad Ltd, an international firm based in the UK and the US. Saft’s first significant entry into the American industrial standby market.

French explorer Jean-Louis Étienne and his team embark on their Transantarctica mission for seven months, powered by Saft batteries.

Acquisition of Saft's major nickel-based competitor for industrial batteries, NIFE in Oskarshamn, Sweden.

Acquisition of Gates Aerospace Batteries, which produces batteries for satellites 

Saft aquires Ferak, once part of Prague Accumulors, based in Raskovice, Czech Republic. The company has been producing nickel-based batteries since 1934 under licence from DEAC, the company that produced Thomas Edison’s first battery.

Acquisition of Tadiran, an Israeli manufacturer of lithium batteries, with operations in Israel, the US and Germany. Disposal of some product lines to focus on the Lithium Thionyl Chloride technology.

Acquisition of Hawker Eternacell, lithium battery supplier to the US and UK armed forces since 1937 Manufacturing of LiSo2.

Acquisition of the German company Friemann und Wolf Batterietechnik GmbH (Friwo). 

The Northrop Grumman Global Hawk contract signed: the first lithium-ion aircraft application 

Saft sold by Alcatel to Doughty Hanson Funds (DHF).

The Mars Exploration Rovers “Spirit” and “Opportunity” land on Mars with Saft batteries on board.  

Saft becomes a Public Limited Company with shares listed on Paris Euronext 

Saft’s Battery Energy Storage System in Fairbanks, Alaska, recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as “the world’s most powerful battery”. 

Opening of Saft China in Zhuhai to support domestic market.

EADS and Saft America combine their expertise in thermal batteries via ASB to form a new subsidiary, Advanced Thermal Batteries Inc., located in Cockeysville, Maryland 

Saft takes control of AMCO Power Systems Ltd of Bangalore, the nickel-based battery business of Amalgamations private Ltd. The entity is called AMCO-Saft India Ltd. 

Inauguration of state-of-the-art lithium-ion plant in Jacksonville, Florida.

Launch of Intensium® Max megawatt-scale containerized energy storage system.

Launch of first lithium-ion solution for railway applications designed for regenerative hybrid traction.

Inauguration of manufacturing facility in Bangalore, India, to support local nickel-based market in standby power, railway, telecom and aviation 

Saft's primary lithium battery powers the Philae Lander on historic comet touchdown and data collection 

TotalEnergies acquires Saft 

President Obama visits Saft America’s advanced lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant.

Inauguration of a new, larger advanced-technology facility in Zhuhai to double the Group’s production capacity in China.

Saft wins major contract to supply marine Li-ion batteries to Rolls-Royce for RRS Sir David Attenborough polar vessel.

Saft strengthens its energy storage business with the acquisition of Go Electric.  

Launch of a pilot line to manufacture batteries for electric vehicles in the presence of French President Emmanuel Macron. 

Saft has commissioned a new production line for Energy Storage Systems in its Jacksonville, Florida plant.