During the Project different results, both technical and commercial were achieved. First the overall design of battery was reviewed, with special attention to the core battery cell. The new design was leaded by different interactions with stakeholders, and in particular with e-bike producers, which helped the team with technical requirenments and indications. An important advancement, for example, was on the cell, which was modified to obtain an improved nominal power from 3 to 100 mW.
Another important technical advancement was a design of a NESSOX charging station. This was achieved starting from a series of interview with fuel distributors to study all the key technical and regulatory requirenments for this kind of station. Then the team interacted with a global charging station producer to study a custom product able to work with the catholyte of NESSOX. Finally the technical characteristics of this product and the costs were studied.
Considering Business Feasibility, the team interacted with more than 15 stakeholders including: e-bike producers, e-car producers, battery producers, energy distributors and suppliers. This allowed to validate the business model and define price targets. The team completed a market analysis which includes the battery and the e-vehicle markets, with a special attention to the small e-vehicle. Moreover an analysis on market barriers and of competitors helped refine the business strategy of Bettery, including CBA, costs analysis and distribution strategy. The final highlight is a large business opportunity for the NESSOX technology in the e-vehicle market, which is poised to start from small e-vechiles like e-bikes, thanks to a potentially distrupting impact of NESSOX in this sector.
