US Lithium-Sulfur Battery Production Lyten Expands

Funding in San Leandro Facility Goals to Strengthen Home Provide Chain and Ship 200 MWh of Excessive-Efficiency Drone Batteries

by DRONELIFE Workers Author Ian J. McNab

Lyten, a San Jose-based supplies firm targeted on the battery house, introduced right this moment that it’ll purchase Cuberg’s San Leandro lithium-metal battery manufacturing facility and cell making tools. Lyten intends to transform the power to lithium-sulfur and develop 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 develop 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 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 Cook dinner, Lyten’s CEO and co-founder. “Our buyer pipeline has grown nine-fold because the 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, acknowledged, “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 ability 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 Cook 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 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 part is anticipated to return on-line in 2027. 

“Lithium-Sulfur is a extremely manufacturable battery that may be produced on customary lithium-ion tools used all through the world right this moment. We intend to make use of this benefit to proceed to opportunistically develop 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. 

In line with the press launch, strategic traders in Lyten embody Stellantis, FedEx, Honeywell, and the Walbridge Group. Earlier this 12 months, Lyten introduced it has partnered with main protection producer AEVEX Aerospace to reveal lithium-sulfur battery powered unmanned air automobiles (UAVs) which can be absolutely 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 House Station (ISS) in 2025, a mission funded by the Division of Protection’s Protection Innovation Unit (DIU).

Extra info on Lyten is offered here.

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Miriam McNabb is the Editor-in-Chief of DRONELIFE and CEO of JobForDrones, knowledgeable drone companies market, and a fascinated observer of the rising drone trade and the regulatory atmosphere for drones. Miriam has penned over 3,000 articles targeted on the industrial drone house and is a global 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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