Echion Technologies Ltd

Echion is the world's leading supplier of niobium based anode materials for batteries. Our product, the Echion XNO(r) anode material, enables some of the world'slargest transportation companies to access sustainable batteries with outstandingsafety, longevity, and fast-charging capability. To achieve the longevity targets a charge and discharge lifetime o...

Project DANCER (Designing Advanced Niobium anode Cells for Expedited Commercial Rollout) brings together anode materials producer Echion Technologies ('Echion') and cell development experts at the Warwick Manufacturing Group ('WMG'), in an R&D project whose goal is to formulate a cell design package that will accelerate commercial adoption of Echion's bat...

The UK is set to acquire a manufacturing basis of 60-200 GWh capacity per year by 2040 for applications spanning automotive, heavy goods, rail and off-road vehicles. The market requires batteries with long cycle life combined with high power and high energy density enabling quick charge and long travel distance. Unfortunately, current anode technologies t...

One of the challenges of the Li-ion batteries is a good cycle life (\>1000 cycles) for a temperature range between -20 and 60 degrees Celsius required by almost all the applications. The lithium-ion cell works on ion movement between the cathode and anode electrodes. In theory, such a mechanism should work forever, but cycling or storage at an elevated te...

Project UBER (Ultra-high power Battery for low Emission Rail), aims to demonstrate for the first time, Echion's XNO(tm) battery chemistry as the preferred battery technology for certain classes of battery electric trains. It targets Theme 1 of this competition. Specifically, UBER aims to demonstrate the suitability of XNO(tm) for passenger trains that can...

The speed of charge of standard commercial batteries is severely limited by the negative terminal material which is used to store the electricity upon charge, called the anode. Echion spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialise a new generation of anode materials enabling faster than 6-min battery charge. As commercial demand from cell manuf...

This feasibility study will assess the economic, technical and environmental opportunity to develop a value chain for the recycling of niobium products. Globally about 0.3% of niobium is recycled back to a niobium product, which is derived from high content niobium products such as superconducting electromagnets. Niobium is present in very small quantitie...

Due to project staffing issues, British Volt has been unable to carry out safety testing on cells provided to them. Both the cylindrical and pouch cells are at the testing house awaiting PO for testing to begin. In fact, the cylindrical cells have been in place awaiting authorisation for testing for a number of months, and we now believe that BV are not i...

Project SATE (Scaling Anode Technology for the xEV market) aims to accelerate the large-volume manufacturing of a next-generation fast-charging battery material for electric vehicles in the UK. This patented material has been developed by Echion Technologies ('Echion'), a high-growth company who spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialise pr...

Project CORNEA brings together Echion Technologies ('Echion') and Johnson Matthey ('JM') in order to accelerate the commercialisation of a next-generation fast-charging battery material for automotive applications. Echion is a high-growth company who spun-out of Cambridge University in 2017 to commercialise proprietary fast-charging battery materials. JM ...

"One of the big challenges for electric vehicles is to meet the peak power requirements in all modes of operation, at all ambient temperatures. The automotive council has set targets for the power density of Li-ion batteries to quadruple by 2035\. This project will develop, test and scale-up new ultra-high-power cells for electric vehicle batteries that h...

The University of Cambridge, battery start-up Echion Technologies, and electric bus powertrain supplier Vantage Power are partnering to turn a disruptive battery technology that was demonstrated at the lab scale into a commercial product enabling long-range electric buses which can be recharged 5 times faster than the current state of the art. The automot...