More Power, Please
Pamela Fletcher was a key executive at General Motors Co. behind its hybrid Chevrolet Volt and Chevrolet Bolt EV, but in July she moved on to the top job at Tucson, Arizona-based Sion Power Corporation.
Her new company doesn’t make full batteries, but rather technology that, she says, provides incrementally more power due to a discovery, leading to a breakthrough in battery chemistry.
The breakthrough, she explained is the discovery of the root cause for the number one failure mode of the technology is the formation of something called dendrites, which cause battery performance to deteriorate over time.
Sion’s solution revolves around the use of lithium metal solution with a proprietary anode and eletrolytes called licerion.
“Once that problem was solved, you could unlock all of the goodness of lithium atom, which is 2x the energy density of today’s lithium ion,” Fletcher said. “We also see fast charge that are in line with today’s average gas station stop, which is a huge jackpot.”
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Ed Garsten is a metro Detroit-based reporter who covers autos