A123's Future Technology Initiative

As part of A123 System’s strategic global technology team, A123’s North American R&D facility located in Waltham, MA ?plays a critical role in identifying, understanding and supporting the commercialization of future cutting- edge battery technologies. The Waltham R&D team brings together both enthusiastic new graduates and career battery veterans in its facility that comprehensively supports bench-through Pilot– scale manufacturing efforts.

Leveraging its origins as one of the battery industry’s pioneers in materials, cell development and commercialization, as well as being situated in one of the U.S.’s premier university and start-up centers, A123’s Waltham site is strongly positioned to meet the needs of current and future customers in the clean energy sector globally.

With these needs in mind, A123’s Waltham R & D team is working with cutting edge start-ups as well as established materials manufacturers to drive technology innovation while maintaining a sound basis in scalable and commercially viable development pathways. As such, an aggressive yet risk managed strategy lies at the core of A123’s technology development mission that prioritizes customers’ requirements for ever- safer and higher capacity batteries.

Towards this end, Waltham’s R & D teams are focused on proving and optimizing pre-lithiation and solid-state batteries, each of which shares known and established materials and manufacturing processes with products already on the market, while introducing novel changes that offer both stability and performance beyond the reach of current lithium-ion batteries.

While the clean energy sector continues to grow and gradually matures keep an eye on A123 Systems and its Waltham R & D team’s contributions to this very exciting technology space as we bring together the best of materials innovation and manufacturing excellence to meet future energy storage and electric vehicle customer’s needs!