AMTE’s development team have achieved a targeted 140Wh/kg energy density specification. Meanwhile, although the company’s main focus is expected to be on the automotive market, it is also targeting stationary energy storage systems too and has been developing its sodium-based cell with a view to commercialising it for battery energy storage system (BESS) customers.ĪMTE Power’s ‘Ultra Safe’ sodium-ion cell development is nearing completion, the company said yesterday in a trading update. The factory in Dundee, eastern Scotland, could see revenues of about £200 million (US$235.6 million) from the 8 million cells it is projected to churn out each year, AMTE Power claimed. The company makes battery cells aimed at higher value market segments such as high-performance vehicles from an existing site in Scotland but is currently developing a new factory with 0.5GWh annual production capacity.ĭue to it focusing on higher value cells for demanding applications, the company believes production lines at its planned ‘Megafactory’ can be as profitable if not more so than the dozens of much bigger gigawatt-hour scale ‘gigafactories’ producing battery cells around the world. Image: AMTE Power.ĪMTE Power, a UK-based manufacturer of batteries, has said its new sodium-ion cells are close to being ready to send out into the field for testing and validation by select customers.
AMTE already assembles battery cells in Thurso, Scotland, but aims to build a 0.5GWh facility dubbed the ‘Megafactory’ in Dundee (also Scotland).
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