Corporate Vision April 2017
CORPORATE VISION / April 2017 45 Company: California Lithium Battery Name: Phil Roberts Email:
[email protected] Web Address: www.clbattery.com Address: 420 Apollo Street, Suite A, Brea, CA 92821 USA Telephone: +1 (714) 591 0540 The Quintessential American Cleantech Entrepreneur g conceived at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory (‘ANL’). “I was approached by a representative from ANL at an energy storage conference asking how would I like to lower the cost of the lithium battery in my new grid storage system I was developing by 70%” said Roberts. Phil knew the key to successfully commercialising a viable grid energy storage system was reducing the cost of the battery. So, Roberts and his partners decided to contract ANL to test the Li-ion battery technology and after seeing impressive results (3X capacity improvement) decided to license the technology in 2012. In 2013, Dr. Junbing Yang, Ph.D., the original ANL technology inventor came on board as CLB’s CTO/President. Most recently, in June 2016, after years of systems development and engineering under Roberts and Yang’s management, CLB filed its own patents and was able to move from lab scale production to commercial production. Today CLB has established working relationships with virtually every major Li-ion battery and EV OEM. The company is now establishing international strategic manufacturing operations worldwide. Roberts believes the significant improvement demonstrated by the significantly improved capacity (1,250mAh/g vs 350mAh/g for graphite used in today’s Li-ion battery anodes), shows that that the novel CLB silicon anode battery technology will in the not so distant future improve the landscape for the future of electric vehicles, energy storage systems, and consumer electronic devices. For anyone interested in learning more about Phil Roberts and the breakthrough CLB silicon composite Li-ion battery anode material, you are very welcome to visit the CLB website at: www. clbattery.com .
Made with FlippingBook
RkJQdWJsaXNoZXIy NTY1MjM3