Leclanché Launches XN50, World’s First Li-ion Commercial Cell Featuring Echion Technologies’ XNO®

Leclanché SA (SIX: LECN), a leading provider of energy storage solutions have developed XN50, the world’s first lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery cell, featuring Echion Technologies’ XNO®, a niobium-based active anode material. The cell provides integrators and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) with a differentiated battery option that outperforms existing chemistries in heavy duty e-mobility, rail and marine applications. Leclanché is set to replace its current LTO offering with XNO®, with a new set of battery module and pack solutions that sit alongside Leclanché’s G/NMC offering.

Leclanché carried out stringent product development and verification to produce a cell that is ready for market adoption. Commercially available now, XN50 delivers the benefits expected from the new XNO® anode chemistry including 50% higher energy density vs. LTO technologies, fast charging and maintaining the highest cell safety and performance in extreme conditions. The XN50 cell can also deliver high power over an estimated cycle life of more than 10,000 cycles when used in heavy-duty applications, with studies showing less than 3% capacity loss and less than 15% resistance growth after 1,000 2C/2C charge/discharge cycles at 45°C. Leclanché’s unique water-based cathode formulation also ensures the XN50 cell electrodes are PFAS free, reducing its impact on the environment even further.