Joe Stevenson

“account for between 80% and 85% of the capital and operating cost of making electrodes.”

“eliminate the conventional wet‑coating process could reduce the total cost of the cell by more than 10%.”

“dry coating could reduce manufacturing costs by around 1% to 2%.”

“a large electrode‑drying oven requires around five megawatts of power.”

“within the region studied, only three locations had sufficient available grid capacity for conventional cell production, all associated with former power stations. Remove the electricity requirement …”

“a full‑size cell factory can have around 200 tons of NMP on site.”