Aquion Energy

Business model

Manufacture non-toxic, non-flammable saltwater battery technology for grid-scale and off-grid renewable energy storage.

In brief

Developed a genuinely novel battery chemistry using saltwater instead of the toxic, flammable materials in typical lithium-ion batteries, backed by prominent clean-energy investors including Bill Gates. The capital intensity of scaling battery manufacturing, combined with falling…

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