By Paul Lienert
– Silicon Valley battery startup Lyten has employed electrical car business veteran Celina Mikolajczak as chief battery expertise officer, the corporate mentioned on Thursday.
Mikolajczak is likely one of the highest-ranking feminine executives in an business nonetheless dominated by males. She beforehand held senior positions at Tesla, Uber, Panasonic and, most lately, battery startup QuantumScape, the place she was chief manufacturing officer.
Earlier than that, she was vp of engineering and battery expertise at Panasonic Vitality of North America, a accomplice with Tesla in Reno, Nevada on the nation’s first battery “gigafactory.”
Mikolajczak is a “essential addition” to Lyten’s govt group, based on Chief Government and co-founder Dan Prepare dinner, citing her “deep expertise and information” within the improvement and manufacturing of battery cells for electrical autos.
In an interview, Mikolajczak mentioned Lyten’s lithium sulfur expertise “takes nickel out of the cathode” within the battery at a essential time. The EV business envisions a possible scarcity of nickel past 2025 as client demand for electrical autos surges.
Prepare dinner mentioned Lyten is constructing a pilot cell meeting line in Silicon Valley that's scheduled to start operation by the tip of the yr. Bigger amenities, together with one supporting “tens of gigawatts” of manufacturing capability, are deliberate.
He mentioned the corporate already has raised greater than $200 million from personal buyers, and goals to faucet different funding sources, together with institutional and strategic buyers, in addition to authorities packages and finally public markets.
Requested when Lyten’s expertise will probably be prepared for prime time, Prepare dinner mentioned: “We've each intention of delivering a lithium sulfur (battery) at large-scale manufacturing within the second half of the last decade.”
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