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At Granode Materials, see our views and intentions
Climate change calls for a bold and swift transformation of the economy. With lithium-ion batteries and their value chain being the key enablers of the European Green Deal, the challenge to secure the present and future supplies of raw materials has been elevated to the very top of the economic agenda.
Batteries are emerging as a critical ingredient in the transition to a more sustainable future because of their role in electrifying transportation and balancing intermittent power grids. Recent demands in electric private transportation are a clear accelerator of the lithium-ion battery growth. However, use of batteries is more than an opportunity to eliminate vehicular CO2 and NO2 emissions. In a world, grappling with climate change, scaling up production of the battery related raw materials, a clearly long term vital future industry, can also offer significant value creation opportunities for corporations, create new stable jobs and support national economic growth.
Technological developments at Granode Materials play a pivotal role in the battery value chain, holding vast potential for value-creation and macroeconomic growth in future industries. This vision will be realized through Granode’s core product development, driven by the critical need for higher energy densities in portable applications and the importance of reducing battery costs. Granode will be driven by the importance of scale to reduce production costs and the competing battery performance.
Granode Materials envisions a sustainable battery value chain, that can help unlocking the recent wrangles of the Swedish and European raw materials supply risks and meanwhile push the boundaries of innovation providing competitive high-performance lithium-ion batteries for the region. Our prediction is that winning companies will be those that create the changes of the next few years.
Driven by current demand, small companies face various obstacles in the race to scale, but they can overcome these challenges by adopting a straightforward yet difficult strategy; become a low-cost producer. Our previous experience with tier-one European OEMs’ shows that key criteria for successful collaboration are lowest cost, a track record on consistent quality, high yield and sustainability.
In the coming years, remaining competitive as an electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer in the mass market will critically depend on the cost-quality tradeoff from the consumer’s perspective. Attaining Li-batteries at costs of about 70-80 USD/kWh, which translated to EV battery pack 100-110 USD/kWh is a resolute target for the OEMs till 2030. This target is only feasible by economy of scale (both in batteries and raw materials supply) and increased energy density of the cells (both in weight and volume).
Features that are ’’etched on the stone’’ in Granode products. The next few years will see exponential expansion in plant sizes. In 2016 the average Li-battery plant was 2.5 GWh, which is expected to grow to above 50 GWh by 2030.
Propelled by this learnings Granode has selected a path of exploiting cheap and widely abundant raw materials for our anode development. Additionally, the innovative solutions of the anode production explored at Granode promote simple and easily scalable routes that can potentially satisfy the extensive volumes needed for market. Nowadays Granode is considered a fast-moving organism striving to secure capacity of capable machinery as well as qualifying supply chain.
While the European funding ventures and the eminent EU regulation for the sustainable Li-battery production highlight the importance of ecological battery supply chain, the term sustainability extends well beyond these aspects at Granode Materials. In the board’s view a technological discourse on creating a sustainable anode supply chain is a prominent aspect for Granode materials.
The environmental footprint of a Li-battery is determined on the one hand by the raw-materials and components used in it and, on the other hand, by cell production methods. Depending on the battery production routes, the share of conventional graphite CO2 emissions varies between 20 and 50 %. Since the electric mobility and portable applications use high energy battery systems, the ecological sustainability of the Granode anodes is a crucial aspect reducing a large portion of battery production emissions.
Battery ecosystems can be powerful tools for economic development, and for entities that wish to embrace value creating opportunities. The battery market is a rising star! It is likely to be a key industry in the short future. Close partnerships could provide access to capital, enable rapid joint development of technology and serve as a national economic engine for years to come.
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