UK battery pioneer EQONIC has confirmed aluminium as the core chemistry behind its lithium-free, sodium-free and rare-earth-free battery technology.
The company is now progressing this technology – which targets material costs of just 30% of traditional lithium metal batteries – towards industrial validation.
This next phase will see EQONIC move this proprietary aluminium-based technology out of the laboratory and into rigorous, industrial-scale testing, proving manufacturability, performance and reliability at the volumes required for commercial deployment.
Aluminium is one of the most abundant metals in the earth’s crust and is widely available from responsibly managed, well-established supply chains – in sharp contrast to lithium, sodium and rare earth materials, which remain exposed to cost volatility, geopolitical tension and export restrictions.
EQONIC’s aluminium-based chemistry and architecture is inherently non-flammable, eliminating the thermal runaway risk that has driven most battery fires in conventional systems, while supporting the company’s target manufactured cost of £50/kWh at scale.
Jas Kandola, Founder and CEO of EQONIC Group said: “We’ve always said we’d reveal the chemistry once we were ready to move to the next stage, and that stage is now. Aluminium-based chemistry gives us everything we set out to achieve – material abundancy, high-levels of safety and low cost – without the trade-offs that lithium, sodium and rare earth materials carry. Confirming the chemistry is one part of the story; progressing towards industrial validation is the part that matters most, and that’s exactly where our focus is now.”
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