Sila Nanotechnologies will begin producing batteries with silicon anodes in Washington State starting in 2024.
. The result is batteries that are both less expensive and more energy dense. The company announced this week it will convert an existing facility in Moses Lake, Washington, to produce 10 gigawatt-hours of batteries initially that use the full graphite replacement technology. It says its batteries will be installed in hundreds of thousands of electric vehicles by 2026.
The news comes a day after the Biden administration announced $3.1 billion toward supporting the domestic production of batteries for electric vehicles. A Sila spokesperson toldthe company is currently reviewing the Department of Energy funds announcement and will likely apply for some of that government money.
“Each [of the two] production line[s] on this new plant will be about 100 times the throughput of the existing production line we have in Alameda,” Berdichevsky says. The Alameda production line can produce 15 megawatt-hours of capacity. “It’s a huge step up and allows us to get to automotive scale.
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