PowerNaP Energy

Company Description

Globally, transportation and electricity generation account for over twenty gigatons of CO2 emissions. High cost remains a barrier to mass adoption of electric vehicles and solar + storage, and today’s lithium-ion batteries are the limiting factor. They rely on rare minerals, making them expensive and prone to supply chain disruption.

Sodium-ion batteries are made of Earth-abundant materials, allowing for improved supply chain resilience and lower cost, but their current energy densities limit them to only a few use cases. PowerNaP Energy is developing a phosphorus-based anode active material for sodium-ion, aiming to unlock energy density parity with lithium-ion at half the cost. The PowerNaP anode means cheap batteries, spurring faster electrification to directly eliminate those twenty gigatons.