US-based silicon battery materials manufacturer Group14 Technologies has completed shipments of its SCC55 material to more than 100 EV and consumer electronics battery manufacturing customers worldwide from its joint venture (JV) factory in Sangju, South Korea.
The facility, designed and built using Group14’s modular manufacturing technology, started producing SCC55 material in August. The factory has an initial annual production capacity of 2,000 tons, equivalent to 10 GWh and enough to power 100,000-250,000 EVs per year. Group14 formed the joint venture with the materials unit of South Korean manufacturing conglomerate SK in July 2021 to accelerate silicon battery production and offer localized sourcing and improved supply chain resiliency to manufacturers and OEMs.
Battery manufacturers are using the initial volumes to continue their qualification of SCC55 for adoption into several commercial EV and consumer electronics programs, which are anticipated to begin hitting the market in 2025.
Group14 has been supplying SCC55 to more than 100 customers from its initial US production facility (BAM-1) in Woodinville, Washington, which has been in operation since 2021. The BAM-2 factory under construction in Moses Lake, Washington is expected to add another 4,000 tons of capacity in 2025, bringing the company’s combined annual capacity to over 30 GWh.
“Group14’s SCC55 material allows silicon batteries to check all of the performance boxes from energy density to extreme fast charging to scalability,” said Rick Costantino, CTO and co-founder of Group14 Technologies. “Establishing EV-scale production of SCC55 is a major milestone for the battery supply chain.”
Source: Group 14 Technologies
