New safe battery set to quadruple energy density
Innolith AG, the world leader in rechargeable Inorganic Battery
Technology, today announces that it is developing world’s first 1000
Wh/kg rechargeable battery. Under development in the company’s German
laboratory, the new Innolith Energy Battery would be capable of powering
an Electric Vehicle (EV) for over 1000km on a single charge. The
Innolith Energy Battery would also radically reduce costs due to the
avoidance of exotic and expensive materials combined with the very high
energy density of the system.
In addition to its range and cost advantages, the Innolith Energy
Battery will be the first non-flammable lithium-based battery for use in
EVs. The Innolith battery uses a non-flammable inorganic electrolyte,
unlike conventional EV batteries that use a flammable organic
electrolyte. The switch to non-flammable batteries removes the primary
cause of battery fires that have beset the manufacturers of EVs.
“The EV revolution is currently stymied by the limitations of available
batteries,” explains Sergey Buchin, CEO of Innolith AG. “Consumers want
an adequate range on a single charge in an affordable EV, and confidence
that it is not going to catch fire. The Innolith Energy Battery is the
breakthrough technology that potentially can meet all these needs.”
Innolith will be bringing the Energy Battery to market via an initial
pilot production in Germany, followed by licensing partnerships with
major battery and automotive companies. Development and
commercialisation of the Innolith Energy Battery is anticipated to take
between three and five years.
Innolith has used an innovative conversional approach in the chemistry
of its Energy Battery to generate the high energy density seen in each
cell. Conversion reaction materials offer a new and promising route to
high-energy-density battery cells as they overcome the poor performance
of traditional intercalation-based materials. This new approach will
enable batteries to reach cell-level energy content values that have
never been possible before.
"This new breakthrough has been made possible by years of dedicated
research into all aspects of inorganic electrolytes and their
application to rechargeable batteries," comments Innolith Chairman, Alan
Greenshields. "Simply put, the experience gained in how to build high
power batteries with exceptional robustness and cycle life has proved to
be the right basis for building high energy products too. The absence of
organic materials, a key aspect of Innolith’s battery technology,
removes the critical source of safety risk and chemical instability of
high energy batteries. It all fell into place in 2018 from an R&D
perspective, with several extraordinary breakthroughs."
Innolith has patents pending for the key inventions of the Energy
Battery and is also maintaining commercial confidentiality on the cell
chemistry mechanism. Under all licensing agreements for the Energy
Battery, Innolith will retain control of all specialty chemical supply
in order to protect its intellectual property.
Innolith has already proven the breakthrough character of non-flammable,
inorganic rechargeable batteries with its first product, a Grid-Scale
Power Battery that is used today in the PJM grid in the US to provide
fast frequency regulation services. The chemistry used in this battery
has been proven to operate for more than 55,000 full depth of discharge
cycles, which is between 10 and 100 times the maximum number of cycles
of existing Li-ion batteries in use today.
About Innolith
Innolith AG is an energy technology company, headquartered in Basel,
Switzerland. It is pioneering an inorganic battery technology platform
that delivers rechargeable batteries with unprecedented levels of
safety, durability, power and now energy. The platform replaces the
flammable, organic-solvent based electrolytes used in all other
commercially available lithium ion batteries with a non-flammable liquid
electrolyte made entirely from inorganic materials. Innolith conducts
primary research at its labs in Bruchsal, Germany.
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