“The company is developing a new battery that replaces the traditional graphite anode with pure metallic lithium metal. The result is a much lighter, much more powerful battery, Chief Executive Officer Richard Wang explained at the BNEF Summit San Francisco on January 30.”

BNEF Summit (San Francisco, January 2024): Richard speaks alongside leaders from Joby and Lilium regarding electric aircraft and urban air mobility.

“Richard Wang (Stanford PhD ’16) explains how a 2015 TomKat Innovation Transfer grant helped jumpstart his company, Cuberg, which is moving electric aviation and other mobility forward with its ultra-lightweight and safe next-generation lithium metal batteries.”

“This video is the final video in our series exploring how CalSEED awardees are innovating battery chemistry to create better, safer and longer lasting batteries that will help to accelerate the clean tech revolution.“

Richard speaks about aviation battery design at the Stanford StorageX International Symposium alongside Herman Wiegman from BETA and Omer Bar-Yohay from Eviation.

“If Cuberg and Northvolt can scale up their tech as quickly as they hope, we could see lithium metal batteries powering small planes and electric vehicles within the decade.”