Echion Technologies
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Echion Technologies makes XNO, a niobium-based anode material for lithium-ion cells that charge in about six minutes and last tens of thousands of cycles.
It sells the powder to cell manufacturers and helps OEMs and system integrators specify XNO-based cells, modules and packs for mining trucks, AI data centres, rail, marine, robotics and industrial storage. The material works with standard electrode manufacturing processes.
Echion grew out of research at the University of Cambridge and is based in Sawston, England. XNO powder has been made at industrial scale since 2025 at a 2,000-tonne-a-year plant in Araxa, Brazil, which the company says equals 1 GWh of cells a year.
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In the Battery Report
Echion Technologies is named on 3 pages across 2 editions of Volta Foundation's annual Battery Report.
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Location Info
- HQ
- Sawston, England, United Kingdom
Latin America (1)
- Manufacturing
- Araxá, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Quick Facts
- Team Size
- 11-50
- Funding
- Private
- Last Updated
- Oct 14, 2026
