StoreDot, a provider of extreme fast charging (XFC) battery technology for EVs, has announced its plans for 2024 – including the reveal of a new EV prototype developed with Polestar equipped with its XFC battery cells.
Over the course of 2024, the company will continue its path to commercialization by pursuing the mass production of its XFC technologies. Here, it will focus its R&D efforts on developing advanced B-sample prismatic cells through joint development programs with several global car manufacturers while working with OEMs on the different form factors they require. In collaboration with Polestar, for example, StoreDot will showcase a prototype EV fitted with XFC battery cell technology. The provider has said that in demonstrating this prototype, it is aiming to invite the full EV ecosystem to adopt its XFC technology.
In supporting its planned progress across the year, StoreDot confirmed that its U.S. team will expand into a new facility in Irvine, CA. As it develops future semi-solid and solid-state batteries, the new facility will help StoreDot harness the skills available on the West Coast, while directly serving its U.S.-based automotive customers. StoreDot will more broadly look to enhance its partnerships with other automotive manufacturers, and manufacturing partners, to scale both its global manufacturing footprint and capacity to support car makers around the world.
These activities, together, are ultimately supporting StoreDot’s ‘100inX’ product roadmap – through which it is aiming to deliver production-ready XFC cells capable of replenishing 100 miles (160 km) of range after charging for five minutes in 2024, reducing this time to four minutes in 2026, and down to three minutes by 2028.