Battery Innovation Center (BIC)

Its development team builds working cells in chemistries from lithium-ion to sodium-ion, lithium-sulfur and aluminum-ion, with roll-to-roll electrode coating. Its test lab runs performance, abuse and failure analysis on cells, modules, packs and grid-scale storage systems to more than 27 standards, including SAE, IEC, UN 38.3 and UL 9540A. The BIC takes no customer intellectual property and is ITAR registered.

The BIC operates a 36,000-square-foot facility with a 1,625-square-foot dry room in Newberry, Indiana, and says it has served over 500 companies.