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E-Lyte wins the StartGreen Award

On Wednesday, November 20, 2019, the best business models in the green economy were honoured as part of the StartGreen Award 2019 at the Federal Ministry of Environment in Berlin. E-Lyte Innovations was able to prevail against 250 StartUps in the category “Future Mobility”!

E-Lyte Innovations develops and produces tailor-made electrolytes for modern energy storage technologies.

Nowadays, lithium-ion batteries are omnipresent and are have a key role around a climate-neutral future. The fundamental research behind lithium-ion batteries has recently been awarded with the Nobel Prize in chemistry.

Currently, lithium-ion batteries are limited in their field of application because the suitable electrolyte solution for the particular lithium-ion battery and its applications doesn´t exist. Metaphorically speaking, electrolytes are the blood of every battery and determine its performance significantly. In a figurative sense, E-Lyte designs the suitable blood type for every battery system.

A direct example is the current dilemma of the automotive industry with regard to starting, lightning, ignition (SLI) batteries. At temperatures below 0°C, lithium-ion batteries show performance reduction without the use of specifically adapted electrolyte solutions. This is the main reason, why toxic lead-acid batteries are still being used in SLI batteries of every automobile, in spite of a ban by the EU that only allows the use in exceptional cases.

The E-Lyte Innovations GmbH was founded in May 2019. Furthermore, the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy and the European Union as part of the EXIST-transfer of research programme supports E-Lyte.