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 targeted on the battery area, introduced at the moment that it’ll purchase Cuberg’s San Leandro lithium-metal battery manufacturing facility and cell making gear. Lyten intends to transform the ability to lithium-sulfur and increase 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 area. Lyten will purchase Cuberg’s battery cell improvement and manufacturing gear and make further gear investments.
Lyten intends to take a position as much as $20M in 2025 as a part of an ongoing plan to increase the San Leandro and San Jose services to ship as much as 200 MWh per 12 months, 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 steel 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,” mentioned 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 tons of of potential prospects. We are actually working to allocate capability from each San Leandro and our beforehand introduced Reno gigafactory.”
Celina Mikolajczak, Lyten’s Chief Battery Know-how Officer, acknowledged, “We’re thrilled for the chance to proceed the buildout and enlargement of the San Leandro facility to speed up supply of Lithium-Sulfur batteries to prospects. The ability suits 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 velocity of Lyten’s manufacturing enlargement represents a well timed transfer to help the U.S. Division of Protection and the army companies in complying with the 2024 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act (NDAA), which mandates the acquisition of home batteries.”
Lyten, which presently 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 section is predicted to come back on-line in 2027.
“Lithium-Sulfur is a extremely manufacturable battery that may be produced on normal lithium-ion gear used all through the world at the moment. We intend to make use of this benefit to proceed to opportunistically increase 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 value, native supplies (versus costly uncommon earth metals) make Lyten lithium-sulfur a decrease value various to conventional options, with efficiency that may considerably exceed conventional lithium-ion batteries.
Based on the press launch, strategic traders in Lyten embrace Stellantis, FedEx, Honeywell, and the Walbridge Group. Earlier this 12 months, Lyten introduced it has partnered with main protection producer AEVEX Aerospace to display lithium-sulfur battery powered unmanned air automobiles (UAVs) which might be totally compliant with the 2024 Nationwide Protection Authorization Act’s (NDAA). Lyten additionally not too long ago introduced that its battery cells had been chosen for testing aboard the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) in 2025, a venture funded by the Division of Protection’s Protection Innovation Unit (DIU).
Extra data on Lyten is out there right here.
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Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, an expert drone companies market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory setting for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the industrial drone area 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 spanking new applied sciences.
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