Australian firm Edea Vitality says it has landed a $161 million deal to provide Australian-made lithium-ion battery options for the Redback infantry preventing automobile, and expects batteries to play an more and more vital function within the army.
“Edea can now confidently provide the Australian Defence Power …. with 100% sovereign Australian vitality storage options from cell processing to battery manufacturing,” says Edea Vitality managing director Mark Tipping.
“This eliminates overseas safety and provide chain danger and …. means we will design, develop and manufacture sovereign Australian batteries for nearly any defence requirement. One can not underestimate the significance of this settlement for nationwide safety.”
The complicated deal will see Edea Vitality provide the Tomago-based Vitality Renaissance, to construct the batteries for Hanwha Protection Australia to make use of in its Redback infantry preventing automobile.
EDEA Vitality was based in 2018 by Tipping and Dr Mark Sandford to create Australian owned, designed and manufactured battery merchandise. The mission of the corporate is to empower communities with secure, dependable, reasonably priced, and sustainable vitality options.
Talking at a Defence Join lunch occasion in Canberra, Tipping mentioned: “We’ve developed what we consider is the world’s most superior and safe 100% Australian manufactured lithium ion batteries from cell processing to battery manufacture. With hyper correct and cyber safe battery administration programs developed by CSIRO.
“I additionally need to acknowledge Hanwha Protection Australia who took a danger and engaged a small Victorian battery firm to develop a prototype for them. These batteries are actually going over to Korea for testing on the Redback and we’re hoping for glorious outcomes.”
In February 2022, Hanwha Protection Australia (HDA) introduced that it could check domestically developed battery options within the Redback IFV, offering better optionality to energy the armoured automobile.
“The potential for positive factors in sovereign functionality in essential elements is critical,” mentioned managing director of Hanwha Protection Australia Richard Cho. “I’ve an enormous aspiration to assist retaining the manufacturing functionality in Australia, which might fight the worldwide provide chain problem as a result of pandemic or one other disaster.”
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