LeydenJar opens pilot plant for extra-efficient batteries near Eindhoven Airport
Leids-Eindhoven start-up LeydenJar will open a pilot factory at Eindhoven's Luchthavenweg airport to produce a new generation of batteries with 50 per cent more energy storage. In the pilot plant, which will open in mid-2020, LeydenJar, together with a number of partners, aims to demonstrate that the self-designed revolutionary batteries can indeed be produced at the same cost as traditional lithium-ion batteries. The dramatic increase in energy storage is possible thanks to the use of a porous silicon structure patented by LeydenJar.
In the former OTB building, LeydenJar has a 400 m² factory hall to operate both the demo plant and the prototype machine that is currently still on the High Tech Campus. "We are already making the first silicon anode coils," says Christian Rood, founder of LeydenJar. "I expect we will be able to do the first commercial production batches by the middle of next year, in cooperation with battery manufacturers and the industry. "Rood expects the new technology, developed in cooperation with research institute TNO, to cause a huge breakthrough. "With current technology, it is difficult to put even more energy into a battery. LeydenJar enables a 50 per cent jump, without drastic changes in the production process. With this, we are making great strides in the growing demand for energy storage. This is of great importance in applications such as electric driving, electric flying, consumer electronics and renewable energy storage."
