
Echion Tecnologies, a Sawston, UK-based developer of niobium-based, fast-charging battery supplies, raised £29M in Collection B funding.
The spherical was led by Volta Vitality Applied sciences with participation from CBMM, BGF and Cambridge Enterprise Ventures.
The corporate intends to make use of the funds to execute its go-to-market technique to see its niobium-based XNO® anode materials utilized in actual world functions, at quantity.
Led by Jean de La Verpilliere, CEO, Echion Tecnologies is a developer of niobium-based, fast-charging battery supplies. The corporate has devised, examined, and patented a niobium-based anode materials, XNO®, which delivers lithium-ion battery efficiency extremely fitted to industrial, business, and high-value functions that demand the very best up-time, lowest whole price of possession, and highest security. XNO® allows lithium-ion batteries that may safely cost in lower than ten minutes, preserve excessive vitality densities even at low temperatures, and ship excessive energy throughout a cycle lifetime of greater than 10,000 cycles.
The corporate’s longstanding partnership with niobium producer CBMM will see the opening of a 2,000 tonne per 12 months XNO® manufacturing facility this 12 months. This gives Echion with the manufacturing capability to fulfill the demand for XNO® throughout its international buyer base comprised of main cell producers and unique gear producers (OEMs).
FinSMEs
14/06/2024
