Pulsenics today announced the launch of AccelaGrade, a quality control solution for lithium-ion battery re-manufacturers.
The technology from the Toronto cleantech firm analyzes cell state of health 19 times faster than traditional cyclers, marking a step forward in scaling battery refurbishment across Canada and beyond.
Remanufacturing includes disassembling, testing, and refurbishing used lithium-ion batteries to keep them safely operating longer.
A thriving remanufacturing sector will reduce costs for battery manufacturers and fleet operators while keeping batteries out of landfills, according to Pulsenics chief of operations, Mariam Awara.
“Pulsenics designed AccelaGrade to help re-manufacturers scale,” Awara says.
The COO sees “a tremendous societal opportunity to keep batteries in the field for as long as possible.”
“Extending the service lifetime of batteries is good business,” Awara says, “and it’s the right thing to do.”
Thus far, remanufacturing has been slow to gain commercial traction due to a single bottleneck, according to Essam Elsahwi, chief executive officer of Pulsenics.
That bottleneck is quality control; it is impractical to individually test every cell in a battery pack with existing technology.
“If we’re going to bring remanufacturing to scale, we’ve simply got to solve quality control,” Elsahwi says.
AccelaGrade by Pulsenics aims to unblock the remanufacturing vertical with quality control that is efficient and comprehensive.
The tech uses multiple scanning technologies, in tandem, to create a sophisticated readout. For example, AccelaGrade combines partial-discharge cycling, temperature measurements, and rapid electrochemical impedance spectroscopy to create a rich dataset.
And it does so 19 times faster than traditional methods.
“Our customers can do amazing things extending battery lifetime, if they can
just get the data they need at the speed their business requires,” Elsahwi believes. “AccelaGrade will catalyze new growth in the remanufacturing vertical.”