Dive Brief:
- OneD Battery Sciences completed commissioning its Moses Lake, Washington, silicon anode material pilot production plant in July, according to a company press release.
- Construction of the $20 million plant began last October and now has 13 employees, with plans to expand to 20, according to OneD Battery CEO and co-founder Vincent Pluvinage.
- The facility’s production capacity is 100,000 kilograms of “sinanode” material, which is enough processing for 10,000 battery packs per year at full capacity, Pluvinage said.
Dive Insight:
OneD Battery Sciences’ Sinanode technology platform adds nano-silicon to various carbon substrates, including artificial and natural graphite anode materials from EV-qualified suppliers, according to its website.
The method increases the energy density and range, while lowering the cost and carbon footprint of EV batteries. The California-based company also claims the technology can save about $1 billion of Capex per EV cell factory.
"This milestone marks an important step forward in scaling up the production of OneD's SINANODE materials for the global battery market,” the company stated.
The material is available as a service to two or three customers, each for a minimum of six quarters, Pluvinage told analyst firm Mergermarket in June.
The Moses Lake plant builds off of the success of OneD’s anode production research and development plant in Palo Alto, California, according to the release.
In addition to its pilot factory, two large-scale production plants are being built in the U.S. and Europe, with one set to come online in the second half of 2027 and the second one around 18 months later, Pluvinage said.
The large-scale manufacturing plants will be licensed and built by industrial partners and have an initial capacity of 20,000 tons per year in Phase 1 and double that in Phase 2, based on demand.
OneD is projecting “double digit millions” in revenue in 2025 and more than $100 million in 2027-2028 after its first large-scale factory becomes commissionable, according to Pluvinage.
OneD Battery Sciences has been building its technology for decades. The company acquired Nanosys’ nanowire technologies and its Palo Alto facility in 2013.
To design and scale up the two facilities, OneD Battery Sciences is working with Koch Modular Process Systems. The two companies entered an agreement in January to produce 20,000 tons of silicon-graphite anode material per year, enough for about 1 million EVs annually.
One D joins two other companies in Moses Lake also producing silicon-enhanced materials for making innovative and lower-cost EV batteries — Group14 Technologies and Sila Nanotechnologies. Both factories are set to open this year.
