February 23, 2023: Nano One has accomplished an essential milestone in its cathode supplies and techno-economic modeling course of with an unnamed world automobile producer, the corporate mentioned on February 21.
The benchmarking, achieved beneath a cathode analysis settlement between the businesses, implies that LFP batteries might be added to the analysis program and can broaden the collaboration to focus on the efficiency, price and environmental specs of the cathode supplies to satisfy the wants of OEM.
The colleagues evaluated Nano One’s NMC cathode supplies to be used in automotive lithium ion batteries and mentioned it: “reveals important potential” in decreasing the environmental footprint, capital prices and working prices. opera whereas assembly efficiency standards.
As a part of the preliminary analysis mission, a third-party research, carried out by engineering agency Hatch, outlined that Nano One’s One-Pot and M2CAM (steel to cathode energetic materials) processes provide environmental advantages and value benefits in comparison with typical cathode processes, the corporate mentioned.
The Hatch research additionally recognized alternatives for additional optimization and value financial savings throughout scale-up and commercialization.
Nano One CTO Stephen Campbell claims that Nano One know-how will finally eradicate 2 billion kilograms of sodium sulfate by-product, for each 15 million EVs or for each terawatt-hour of manufacturing. battery.
“Our M2CAM know-how can use lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide and use metals as a substitute of steel sulfates,” the corporate mentioned. “This makes it price and capital aggressive, it reduces the steps within the provide chain, it lowers the usage of water by roughly 60% and it eliminates a big and environmentally dangerous quantity of sodium sulfate by -product.”
Nano One introduced on February 13 that it was awarded C million (.5 million) by Sustainable Improvement Know-how Canada to advance the corporate’s growth of high-performance cathode supplies utilized in lithium ion batteries.
The funding can even assist the conversion of Nano One’s lately acquired Candiac facility to a One-Pot course of for industrial-scale pilot manufacturing of lithium iron phosphate and encourage the corporate’s growth into industrial operations. .
