Calgary’s E3 Lithium is partnering with Pure Lithium to advance the design of a lithium metal anode and battery pilot plant in Alberta.
Pure Lithium is a disruptive Boston-based vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology company.
Under the joint development agreement, the two companies will complete a preliminary economic assessment of a commercial lithium metal battery facility combining Pure Lithium’s patented vertically integrated Brine to Battery technology with E3’s vast lithium brines and concentrate production.
The combined process eliminates the need to produce a lithium salt as an intermediary step and could provide a much more simplified process flow sheet.
E3 announced earlier this summer that a lithium metal battery had been made by Pure Lithium from E3 lithium concentrate. At that time, the two companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding to complete further testing and validation work.
Over the past two years, the companies have been collaborating and Pure Lithium has been using E3’s lithium concentrate to produce lithium metal cells that have higher energy density than today’s lithium-ion batteries, and do not contain nickel, cobalt or graphite.
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