Ambri (company)

Ambri, Inc. is an American startup company which aims to produce molten-salt batteries for energy storage in wind and solar power systems.[1] In 2016 it had thirty-seven employees.[2]

Ambri, Inc.
FormerlyLiquid Metal Battery Corporation
TypePrivate
FounderDonald Sadoway
Headquarters
Marlborough, Massachusetts
,
U.S.
ProductsBatteries for Renewable Energy storage
Websiteambri.com

History

The Liquid Metal Battery Corporation was formed in 2010 to commercialize the liquid-metal battery technology invented by Donald Sadoway at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It was renamed Ambri in 2012.[3] In 2012 and 2014, it received $40 million in funding from Bill Gates, Khosla Ventures, Total S.A., and GVB.[4]

In September 2015 the company deferred plans for commercial sales of its batteries, and laid off a quarter of its workforce.[5] In 2016 it hoped to develop a calcium-antimony battery.[6][2]

In 2020, Ambri signed a contract with TerraScale to deliver a 250 MWh energy storage installation for a data center to be built in Nevada.[7]

References
  1. "Full Page Reload". IEEE Spectrum: Technology, Engineering, and Science News. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  2. "Ambri Returns to the Energy Storage Hunt With Liquid Metal Battery Redesign". www.greentechmedia.com. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  3. LaMonica, Martin. "Liquid Metal Battery snags funding from Gates firm". CNET. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  4. "Liquid Metal Battery Startup from MIT's Don Sadoway Gets $15-Million Boost, Investments from Khosla Ventures, Bill Gates, & Total". CleanTechnica. 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  5. "Battery startup Ambri lays off staff, pushes back commercial sales". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  6. "Ambri's liquid metal battery to be used at desert data centre in Nevada". Energy Storage News. Retrieved 2021-01-10.
  7. "TerraScale to leverage Ambri liquid metal battery technology at Reno data centre campus". Techerati. 2020-12-01. Retrieved 2021-01-17.
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