Acculon Energy

YOUR FUTURE.
FASTER.

Your future is our business. In a constantly accelerating, energy-driven world, we propel our clients’ battery programs forward, faster. Our advanced battery expertise, testing and prototyping facilities, and engineering resources are ready to handle your complex energy storage challenges.

From Start To Scale

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Collaboration

Every battery program at Acculon begins with collaboration–a true partnership with our clients that involves listening for key requirements, responding with focused solutions, and sustaining program momentum as its very foundation.

Design

At Acculon, we understand that in the world of electrification and energy storage, battery applications require intelligent design, vocational research, and full-stack development that is informed by a range of expertise and innovation.

Prototyping

Acculon develops battery module and pack prototypes for a broad range of industries and applications. Our prototypes are constructed and bench tested with your battery program’s speed, quality, safety, and certification requirements in mind.

Testing

Acculon has been a leader in battery cell evaluation and pack validation testing since 2009. High-quality designs of experiments, high-accuracy equipment, and high-efficiency lab operations provide unparalleled data quality and world class analysis from an automotive tier-one battery testing lab that has the capacity to serve your most demanding battery programs.

Manufacturing

Acculon’s design for manufacturing method enables our clients to direct manufacture or contract manufacture, often reshoring and bringing manufacturing back to the United States. We are proud to work side-by-side with our clients who are leading the next wave of American battery innovation and manufacturing.

Market Support

Acculon combines extensive user experience design with advanced capabilities in connected products, IoT and AI-based solutions to deliver remote product, field technical, and customer support solutions that elevate your battery brand. We create unique customer experiences that keep machine up time and customer satisfaction high.

Expertise
DRIVES
Success

Expertise drives success. We carry this belief through every detail of our business. From design to prototype to production, our advanced engineering teams unleash their mastery, experience, and curiosity to find the best solutions for your battery programs.

That means better designs.
Better solutions.
Better data.
Better results.

It’s our passion that powers our performance. Expertise isn’t just about having the right knowledge, it’s about having the right approach. Our approach yields better results with fewer risks while accelerating success, from start to scale.

A Path to the Future

Over the past few decades, the world has witnessed a remarkable shift towards cleaner and more sustainable energy sources, and this transformation has been spearheaded by the electrification movement. 

The development of lithium-ion battery technology has been a key enabler for the widespread adoption of electric vehicles and the integration of renewable energy sources into the power grid–but that’s just the beginning. 

Today, the electrification movement continues to gain momentum, driven by advancements in lithium-ion battery technology and non-automotive and non-grid energy storage solutions, impacting a range of industrial applications. Acculon is poised to contribute to a new era of electrification in material handling, robotics, autonomous guided vehicles, port vehicles, golf carts, marine, aviation, power tools, powersports, lawn and garden, community electric vehicles, aerospace, agriculture, and more.

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Early Days
  • 1832 - Robert Anderson develops the first crude electric vehicle.
  • Early 1900s - EVs are all the rage in the US, making up a third of all the vechicles on the road until the Model T was introducted and gas-powered cars gained popularity.
  • 1960s - Internal combustion engines and cheap, abundant gas meant there was no need for alternative fuel until the 60s and 70s when gas prices soared, generating interest in electric vehicles again.
  • 1976 - The first viable Lithium-based battery was patented by British chemist Michael Stanley Whittingham. Whittingham's breakthrough was the battery's low weight, high energy density and its capability to work at room temperature.
  • 1977 - John B Goodenough imporoved on Whittengham's design to develop the first Lithium-ion battery, showing how oxide cathodes would perform in a Li-ion battery and be safer than the previous lithium design.
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1990s
  • 1990 - 1992 Federal and state regulations create a renewed interest in EVs and automotive industry responds by creating EVs more closely matching power, speed, and performance of gas-powered vehicles.
  • 1996 - GM releases EV1.
  • 1997 - The first-generation Toyota Prius was launched.
2000s
  • By 2000, Toyota released the second generation Prius worldwide.
  • 2006 - Silicon Valley start-up Tesla Motors announces it will release a luxury EV with a range of 200* miles.
  • 2008 - The first generation Tesla Roadser rolled off the production line.
  • 2009 - Car Technologies is open for business and begins testing battery cells and packs for OEMs and battery manufacturers.
  • 2009 - ARRA - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 appropriates $800B for energy independence and renewable energy. https://afdc.energy.gov/laws/arra.html
2010s
  • 2010 - GM releases the Chevy Volt and Nissan launches the LEAF.
  • 2013 - Electric battery costs drop by 50%, making EVs more affordable for cosumers and investment in electrification more attractive to OEMs.
  • 2016 - Bobcat unveiled the prototype for their E10e electric mini excavator that can run for a full for an eight-hour day on its lithium-ion batteries.
  • 2017 - Volvo CE showed off their all-electric compact excavator: the EX2. It is 10 times quieter and 10 times more efficient than its diesel counterpart, using uses two lithium-ion batteries that deliver 38kWh and can operate for eight hours.
  • 2018 - JCB launched the first all-electric excavator that can work all day on a six hour charge.
  • 2019 - Volvo CE unviels its first commercial zero-emissions electric compact excavator and wheel loader in Europe.
2020s
  • 2021 - The Biden Administration and the Secretary of Energy publish NATIONAL BLUEPRINT FOR LITHIUM BATTERIES 2021–2050, laying out an agressive agenda to promote the energy economy with a focus on establishing a domestic supply chain for Li-ion batteries.
  • 2021 - Volvo CE announces plans to introduce three new electric-powered compact machines to the market, giving the company the broadest range of electric equipment in the construction industry.
  • 2022 - Acculon Energy is open for business in July.
  • 2022 - CHIPS and Science Act passes July 2022 and Inflation Reduction Act in August 2022, providing $280 billion in funding to boost manufacturing and domestric supply chains, and providing nearly $370B in clean energy and climate funding over the next decade.
  • 2023 - John Deere launches first electric zero-turn mower with a lithium-ion battery, capable of mowing up to two acres per charge.
  • 2023 - At ConExpo in March, many major OEMs display a range of electric battery-powered equipment in various stages of development.
  • 2023 - Research predicts the electrical construction market will become fiercely competitive with major players focusing on gaining market share through product launches, strategic partnerships, and acquisitions. Predictions state that from 2023 to 2030, the market is expected to grow at a significant compound annual growth rate.

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