Altech producing 'table salt' battery prototype in Germany

Altech Batteries is producing and fabricating two prototypes of a 60kwh ‘table salt’ battery pack at a facility in Hermsdorf, Germany.

Once  completed,  the  battery  packs  will  undergo  cycling  testing  “under  extreme conditions”, and they will be available for testing at customer premises.

The  ‘CERENERGY’ sodium chloride solid state 60  KWh battery  pack uses  table  salt  and  is  free  of  lithium,  cobalt,  graphite,  and  copper,  “thus  eliminating exposure  to  critical  metal  price  rises  and  supply  chain  concerns”, an Altech statement said.

In September 2022, Altech  announced a joint  venture  agreement  with  Fraunhofer  IKTS,  a German battery institute, to commercialise the ‘CERENERGY’ battery. The joint venture  company  will  be  majority-owned  (75 per cent)  by  Altech  and  its  associated entity Altech  Advanced Materials AG. The company will focus on commercialising a 100MWh project to be constructed on Altech's industrial site in Schwarze Pumpe, Germany.

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