Chief Sales and Marketing Officer Curtis Collar assesses Nanotech Energy’s ability to deliver market-leading battery cells – whatever the requirements.
Like every material or industry, designing battery cells is not a one-size-fits-all process. Depending on their end-use, cells are designed and manufactured with different qualities. Cells designed for energy storage, for example, can’t be used for a power tool application. You’ve got to look at each specific use case and design the battery cell in line with its key requirements.
Those requirements are starkly distinct. Cells designed for a data center or battery back-up system have to be able to deliver a huge spike of power very quickly. A cell for energy storage prioritizes cycle life and maximum energy density in a limited space. Automotive systems need even more energy density. For each different use case, cells need to be engineered and designed for optimal performance.
And that’s where at Nanotech, thanks to almost 20 years of incubation and development of graphene technology, we’re proud to enjoy a distinct competitive advantage.
Our chemistry platform allows us to engineer the best-in-class, most cutting-edge cells on the market for any application. Famously, that platform includes graphene – which allows us to have longer cycle lives, higher energy density, and lower temperature generation on use. It also includes non-flammable electrolytes, which allow us to produce longer cycle lives, lower operating temperatures, and the safest batteries on the market.
That flexibility is unique in the United States. Our technology applies across many different platforms, many different industries, and it can be combined with other technologies for even more additional benefits. Most excitingly, our manufacturing facilities are now ramping up their ability to deliver real-world products.
Chico 2, our new manufacturing facility at Chico Technology Center, CA, will produce cells for data centers; cells for EVs such as scooters, e-bikes, and ride-on lawn mowers; and cells for power tools.
Chico 1, our state of the art development center, has the capability to produce hundreds of cells a day, multiple different cell types a week, and in cylindrical or pouch formats.
I’m confident in claiming no other American battery producer has our ability to create prototypes in various shapes and the platform chemistry to deliver cells in many different pouch form sizes or cylindrical cell sizes.
We engineer for specific solutions, whether that’s extreme high energy density, high discharge rates, extreme safety, or extreme cold temperatures. From R&D through to full commercialization, our platform leaves us uniquely positioned to deliver at a speed and efficiency others simply cannot match – allowing us to partner with our customers to give them a significant competitive advantage in their market space. It’s a hugely exciting time.
