Electrovaya (TSX:EFL) and its wholly owned subsidiary, Litarion GmbH introduce its new thinner flexible ceramic separator SEPARION ® P20 for utility-scale and electric vehicle applications. This expands the SEPARION ® family with both the nominal 21 micron (P20) and the 28 micron (P30) separators now available.
A separator is a value-added membrane that acts as a critical safety barrier inside a lithium ion battery. SEPARION ® is a unique ceramic separator that withstands unusually high temperature incursions and thus makes a lithium battery much safer. SEPARION ® is proven in more than two million large-format lithium ion cells powering advanced applications such as electric vehicles and grid-scale energy storage.
The newly launched P20 now enables the same SEPARION ® technology to be used in a thinner format, which has been demanded by many of our automotive customers and the P20 should become the industry standard for automotive, frequency response and other high rate applications. P20 is being qualified with several customers with very positive results. SEPARION ® “full ceramic separators” have consistently shown superior performance as compared to coated poly-olefin based separators.
In addition to its safety advantages, the SEPARION ® family of flexible ceramic separators also dramatically increases the cycle-life of lithium ion batteries. The extended cycle life can change the cost equation as the SEPARION ® enables lithium ion cells to have a lower cost per cycle. “High performance battery manufacturers need ultra-safe product with extended cycle life. We are seeing excellent demand for this thinner flexible ceramic separator SEPARION ® from numerous leading battery manufacturing companies especially in Japan, China and Korea,” said Mr. Osman Chunhui Chen, Director of Sales, Asia for SEPARION ® .
“The flexible ceramic separator, SEPARION ® , is a proven technology providing excellent safety and performance for advanced battery applications, SEPARION ® P20 is the further development needed for the next generation of cells,” says Dr. Kai-Christian Möller, Fraunhofer Battery Alliance, Germany.
“The battery market is aiming at separators providing excellent safety and performance for advanced battery applications. Cells equipped with SEPARION ® set benchmarks in the automobile industry,” says Dr. Jörg Kaiser, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
Electrovaya Inc. (TSX: EFL) designs, develops and manufactures proprietary Lithium Ion Super Polymer® batteries, battery systems, and battery-related products for energy storage, clean electric transportation and other specialized applications. Electrovaya, through its fully owned subsidiary, Litarion GmbH, also produces cells, electrodes and SEPARION ® ceramic separators and has manufacturing capacity of about 500MWh/annum. Electrovaya is a technology focused company with extensive IP. Headquartered in Ontario, Canada, Electrovaya has production facilities in Canada and Germany with customers around the globe.
To learn more about how Electrovaya and Litarion is powering mobility and energy storage, please explore www.electrovaya.com,www.litarion.com and www.separion.com
For more information, please contact:
North America:
Electrovaya Inc.
Telephone: 1.905.855.4618
Email: ir@electrovaya.com or sales@electrovaya.com
Europe & Asia:
Litarion GmbH:
Osman Chunhui Chen Director of Sales, Asia for SEPARION ®
Email: info@litarion.com
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