When it comes to the race for active material primacy, lithium is ahead for now – but zinc has vast latent advantages as lithium is headed for a plateau. So explains Glenn Austin Green, Senior Business Development Manager at GP Energy Tech, in the latest from our Aqueous Energy video series.
“We believe nickel zinc — particularly on the zinc side — is only at 30 to 35% of its theoretical capability,” says Green, “whereas lithium we see as already at 85 to maybe 90% of achieving the theoretical limits.”
Watch our interview with Green, part of our Aqueous Energy video series, where he describes how GP’s 40 years of expertise gives them a unique position to turn zinc’s enormous potential into a leading advantage in the growing data center storage market.
Green fills us in on:
- How GP’s new nickel-zinc sub-C cell delivers sustainable performance for data centers – pulling 40 amps from a 2Ah format, with the potential to reach up to 60.
- Why GP’s “manufacturing twin” and “McDonald’s” approaches to standardized production – perfected through navigating the challenges of the Pandemic – support GP’s ready ability to produce millions of cells a year.
- GP’s major new facilities initiatives including a production line in Dongguan, China, and a $150M gigafactory and R&D center in the Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone in Malaysia.
- Advice to battery startups on sticking to what you’re good at and focusing on proof of manufacturability and avoid the “valley of death”.
It’s all in the video above.