Under the new agreement, the parties will work together over the next 12 months to complete a rigorous techno-economic model, continue the joint scale-up efforts, and design a lithium metal anode and battery pilot facility to be built near Calgary, using lithium from concentrate generated by E3.
Through this work, E3 and Pure Lithium will assess the technical and economic criteria of a commercial lithium metal battery facility that would be located next to the lithium production in Alberta.
Upon successful completion, they will evaluate the next steps, including the operation of the pilot, which is designed to produce 200 kg of lithium metal anodes used in lithium metal vanadium rechargeable batteries.
The collaboration would lead to advancement towards the world’s first vertically integrated lithium metal battery technology, the companies said.
The combined process, according to E3, eliminates the need to produce a lithium…
