Thirteen years of battery know-how, so your technology doesn’t start from scratch.
Our bill of materials, our vetted vendors, and 500+ test plans raise your technology and manufacturing readiness faster.
The Valley of Death
Where funding runs out
Government funding carries a technology through research. Industry buys products that are already proven. In between, roughly TRL 3 to 7 and MRL 2 to 5, funding thins out and most battery technology stalls. That is the commercialization valley of death, and it is where the BIC works.
Coin cell data is not investable
To raise the next round, a company needs data at the next readiness level: electrodes coated on a roll-to-roll line, cells built in the format the customer buys, and test data to the standards the customer will hold it to. But the equipment that produces that data is expensive. Chicken, meet egg.
The BIC breaks that loop. Battery companies use the BIC’s equipment to generate the data they need to raise money for the equipment they will need next.
Work With Us
Cell fabrication and development
Any chemistry from established Li-ion to sodium-ion, lithium-sulfur, and aluminum-ion, built into a working cell. Roll-to-roll coating, proof-of-concept builds, and investable electrochemistry data.
Performance, abuse, and failure analysis
Batteries at every format: cells, modules, packs, and grid-scale storage systems, tested to SAE, IEC, UN 38.3, UL 9540A, and OEM protocols.
What Our Clients Say
“BIC enthusiastically invites researchers into their facility and provides hands-on training building cells of all types out of your very own cutting edge battery materials. … All of this is offered without any worry over intellectual property concerns; your I.P. remains your own.”
“BIC has taken the time to understand our business and tailor the testing to our needs knowing the potential of stumbling blocks during this testing. They provided us with options and suggestions when something did not go as planned and paid close attention to the testing when we could not be on site.”
“The BIC has been a great resource over the years as we have moved from energy storage and micro-grid pilot projects, to large, utility scale investments. … It is truly viewed as a global center of excellence for energy storage research and development.”
Why the BIC
We are not a university lab. No publication interest in your data, no student turnover on your project.
The BIC takes no customer intellectual property.
ITAR registered, with defense program experience and NSWC Crane as our neighbor at WestGate@Crane.
Cell fabrication and battery testing share one Newberry facility, so what the test lab finds can go straight into the next build.
Latest from the BIC
Find us at booth 3218
The BIC will be at The Battery Show in Detroit, October 12 to 15. Stop by to talk cell builds, testing, and qualifying domestic materials with Les Alexander, Amol Chandekar, Alex Serov, and Jonathan Pace.
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