{"id":8855,"date":"2014-05-03T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T17:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2014-05-03T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T17:41:23","slug":"eas-viii-ultra-high-energy-density-lithium-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cafe.foundation\/blog\/eas-viii-ultra-high-energy-density-lithium-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"EAS VIII: Ultra High Energy Density Lithium Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Qichao Hu is \u200bCofounder, President and interim CEO of SolidEnergy<\/a>, a battery company with a different technology and a unique business plan.\u00a0 According to his company\u2019s web site, he \u201cCofounded SolidEnergy while a PhD student at MIT, and led it\u00a0through early stage business plan competition, fundraising, licensing and collaboration negotiation, and technology development. 2012 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Energy, and is a graduate of MIT and Harvard University.\u201d\u00a0 His team was also the Deployment and Infrastructure Category Winner in the 2012 MIT Clean Energy Prize competition.<\/p>\n

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Dr. \u00a0Qichao Hu, CEO and Chief Technology Officer of SolidEnergy, a high-energy team of battery developers<\/p><\/div>\n

In his presentation to the eighth annual Electric Aircraft Symposium on April 25, Hu told about his Waltham, Massachusetts startup\u2019s strategic partnership with A123, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory.\u00a0 The firm\u2019s laboratory and intellectual depth enables creating a battery that is safer, lighter and smaller, as Hu told attendees at the Symposium.<\/span><\/p>\n

Solid Energy Systems Corp. is now affiliated with A123 Venture Technologies Corp.\u00a0 This allows Hu and his team, \u201cThe Magnificent Seven,\u201d to develop chemistry and technology, and feed this to manufacturing operations such as A123.\u00a0 This different business plan keeps SolidEnergy from falling into the trap of trying to create a new battery company and running into the costs of buying all the manufacturing and lab equipment necessary to sustain such an operation.\u00a0 He points to the failed attempts along the way, and notes that his technology can be applied in already operating firms, such as A123, or expanded into dormant plants without great changes in existing machinery.<\/p>\n