OneD Battery Sciences Launches SINANODE Pilot Manufacturing Plants & Breaks Through Silicon EV Battery Cost Barrier
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PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 7, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
- New plants enable simplest, most scalable, and cost-effective silicon
solution for EV anode manufacturing
OneD Battery Sciences (
), leaders in electric vehicle (EV) battery technology, today announced it has
begun construction of its first pilot plants in Moses Lake, WA. The plants will
enable each EV maker to customize and optimize silicon-graphite anodes for use
in their upcoming advanced lithium-ion EV batteries using OneD's patented
SINANODE technology process.
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The plants follow a significant industry milestone by OneD. Chief Technology
Officer and Co-founder, Dr. Yimin Zhu, successfully led his team to brake the
cost barrier in attaching greater quantities of silicon into EV batteries ¬– at
a cost far below industry expectations. Now, the energy storage capacity of
SINANODE's silicon nanowires is so efficient that cell cost per kilowatt hour
actually declines as silicon content and energy density increase.
"Each SINANODE pilot uses one CVD machine which will produce up to 340 MWh per
year at a variable cost of about $1.20/kWh," notes Andrew Leyland, Head of
Strategic Advisory at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. "This makes OneD's
process both eminently scalable, and also one of the lowest cost silicon
solutions we've seen."
The facilities provides Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) dedicated space
to create differentiated anodes using the SINANODE STEP, a truly drop-in
process, disrupting neither the existing graphite supplier (natural or
synthetic) nor the coating method (wet slurry or dry electrode coating).
Dr. Zhu's technology team's innovations deliver more silicon energy storage
within EV cells' anodes without the typical complexities and drawbacks that
come with silicon-oxide particle additives (currently in a few EV models). The
unique shape and pliancy of SINANODE nanowires, that are fused and grown
directly on the graphite, simplify the entire process – solving issues of
uniform silicon distribution and capacity retention. SINANODE also eliminates
the use of inactive materials that add weight – rather than energy storage
capacity.
"Many in the auto and battery industries have perceived silicon nanowires to be
too expensive for the mass production of EV batteries. It's time to recalibrate
the conversation and demonstrate the impact this technology is making today in
delivering better EV batteries to be on the road by 2025," said Fabrice Hudry,
OneD's Chief Commercial Officer. "Our Pilot Plants in Moses Lake – along with
our suppliers and partners – are just the practical next step in delivering on
our mission to advance the EV battery with silicon nanowires."
Each building of the pilot facility will be equipped to deliver the end-to-end
processing of commercial graphite powders. Using inexpensive precursors, the
plant will have the capacity to deliver pre-production annual capacity of
batteries for up to 3,400 EVs per CVD machine.
OneD unveiled SINANODE earlier this year, a manufacturing technology which
seamlessly integrates into existing manufacturing processes to fuse silicon
nanowires onto commercial graphite powders, tripling the energy density of the
anode while halving its cost per kWh. The higher energy density increases
battery range while nanowires shorten charging time, enabling OEMs to design
and produce electric vehicles that answer the booming market demand for better
batteries.
For more information on pilot-program participation opportunities, please
contact Fabrice Hudry at fabrice.hudry@onedsinanode.com.
About OneD Battery Sciences
Formerly OneD Material, the company operates a SINANODE pilot production
program to support the development of advanced electrochemical cells and the
production scale up of its industrial partners. In 2013, OneD Battery Sciences
acquired Nanosys' nanowire technologies (SINANODE) and its Palo Alto R&D
activities. Today, the company has 240 granted patents in large scale anode
production and next generation EV battery designs. OneD Battery Sciences is
headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
SOURCE OneD Battery Sciences
CONTACT: OneD@Headstandgroup.com
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