Funding in San Leandro Facility Goals to Strengthen Home Provide Chain and Ship 200 MWh of Excessive-Efficiency Drone Batteries
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian J. McNab
Lyten, a San Jose-based supplies firm centered on the battery house, introduced at this time that it’s going to purchase Cuberg’s San Leandro lithium-metal battery manufacturing facility and cell making tools. Lyten intends to transform the ability to lithium-sulfur and broaden capability to allow as much as 200 MWh of lithium-sulfur battery manufacturing within the Bay Space at full capability.
As a part of the settlement, Lyten will take over Cuberg’s 119,000 sq. foot facility in San Leandro that features manufacturing, workplace, and warehouse house. Lyten will purchase Cuberg’s battery cell growth and manufacturing tools and make further tools investments.
Lyten intends to speculate as much as $20M in 2025 as a part of an ongoing plan to broaden the San Leandro and San Jose services to ship as much as 200 MWh per yr, at full capability, of US manufactured Lithium-Sulfur batteries. San Leandro industrial manufacturing is meant to start within the second half of 2025. The services will manufacture sulfur cathodes, lithium metallic anodes, and assemble lithium-sulfur cells for industrial prospects.
“The acquisition of further manufacturing capability for Lithium-Sulfur is in direct response to fulfilling buyer demand extra rapidly,” stated Dan Prepare dinner, Lyten’s CEO and co-founder. “Our buyer pipeline has grown nine-fold for the reason that begin of 2024 and now numbers within the lots of of potential prospects. We at the moment are working to allocate capability from each San Leandro and our beforehand introduced Reno gigafactory.”
Celina Mikolajczak, Lyten’s Chief Battery Know-how Officer, said, “We’re thrilled for the chance to proceed the buildout and growth of the San Leandro facility to speed up supply of Lithium-Sulfur batteries to prospects. The power matches completely into our technique of constructing US management within the manufacturing of subsequent era batteries and can allow Lyten to scale our home supplies provide chain extra rapidly.”
Dan Prepare dinner added, “The pace of Lyten’s manufacturing growth represents a well timed transfer to help the U.S. Division of Protection and the army providers in complying with the 2024 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act (NDAA), which mandates the acquisition of home batteries.”
Lyten, which at present produces batteries on its semi-automated pilot line in San Jose, final month introduced plans to construct a gigafactory in Nevada able to manufacturing as much as 10 GWh of lithium-sulfur batteries yearly using a US supplies provide chain. The primary part is predicted to come back on-line in 2027.
“Lithium-Sulfur is a extremely manufacturable battery that may be produced on normal lithium-ion tools used all through the world at this time. We intend to make use of this benefit to proceed to opportunistically broaden Lithium-Sulfur manufacturing although the acquisition of lithium-ion belongings,” added Mikolajczak.
Lyten’s Lithium-Sulfur batteries are as much as 40% lighter than equal lithium-ion cells and 60% lighter weight than lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries. Lyten’s use of low price, native supplies (versus costly uncommon earth metals) make Lyten lithium-sulfur a decrease price various to conventional options, with efficiency that may considerably exceed conventional lithium-ion batteries.
In accordance with the press launch, strategic traders in Lyten embody Stellantis, FedEx, Honeywell, and the Walbridge Group. Earlier this yr, Lyten introduced it has partnered with main protection producer AEVEX Aerospace to display lithium-sulfur battery powered unmanned air automobiles (UAVs) which are totally compliant with the 2024 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act’s (NDAA). Lyten additionally not too long ago introduced that its battery cells have been chosen for testing aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) in 2025, a challenge funded by the Division of Protection’s Protection Innovation Unit (DIU).
Extra info on Lyten is out there right here.
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Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone providers market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory setting for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles centered on the industrial drone house and is a world speaker and acknowledged determine within the trade. Miriam has a level from the College of Chicago and over 20 years of expertise in excessive tech gross sales and advertising for brand new applied sciences.
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