For this episode Ryan Maughan speaks to Virginia Irwin Klausmeier the President and CEO of Sylvatex.
Sylvatex has been developing new manufacturing techniques to radically reduce the cost and carbon footprint of Cathode Active Material, they have focused on this part of the battery cell because according to their research it represents over 50% of the cost and around 47% of the embodied CO2 in a Lithium Ion battery system. Their technology has the potential to make a huge impact reducing the cost and energy required to make Lithium Ion batteries.
The company has developed pilot production capability and is in the process of scaling up its operations, to find out more; check out this podcast!
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