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tery expert Jeff Dahn. There, they helped develop
testing technology to respond to the changing
needs of the battery industry. The battery require-
ments of EVs are different from those of other
industries, so with EVs on the rise, battery manu-
facturers had to adapt.
A primary requirement of EV batteries is long
life, St Baker explained. “Historical battery pro-
duction was centered around your personal de-
vices: laptops, cordless equipment, which doesn’t
require as long a life as EV and grid storage.”
“The big question that we asked ourselves at
the time was: How are we going to...do research
on materials and cell designs that are going to
impact batteries that need to last 10+ years?” said
Burns, now the CEO of Novonix. “As the market
was changing from consumer electronic cells to
electric vehicle and energy storage cells, this was
the big question.”How are we going
to...do research
on materials and
cell designs that
are going to impact
batteries that need
to last 10+ years?