Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta uses graphene as a critical part of its design.
Vaultaâs innovative no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve. Vaulta targets various markets - from stationary storage and electric vehicles to defense, aerospace and beyond.
The casings by Vaulta are said to contain fewer parts, reduce development time, reduce costs, grant improved thermal performance, reduce weight by 10-15%, enable easier and quicker assembly and more - on top of being recyclable and/or reusable.
Vaulta's patented design uses graphene initially in the outer casing to create a thermally conductive yet electrically insular housing. This helps to remove heat directly from the cell terminals, which if it were a metal would be a much more complex design to avoid short circuiting the battery. Being a polymer allows for greater design freedoms by eliminating fasteners, and reducing weight and size.
The current collectors also use graphene and some other proprietary processes which Vaulta could not disclose, to create a high electrically and thermally conductive current collector to move current through the battery module. This design is lighter weight, and allows greater design freedoms.
Contact information for Vaulta
53 Holland Street
Northgate QLD 4013
Australia
Vaulta secures Federal government grant
Australia-based battery case developer Vaulta has been awarded a Federal Government grant to commercialize its battery casings for the electric vehicle market.
Vaulta received a grant of AUD$297,500 (around USD$219,000) from the Federal Government’s Accelerating Commercialization grants program to commercialize its low-cost and light-weight graphene-enhanced battery modules.
Vaulta enters MOU with Braille, Grafoid and Focus Graphite to explore applications for its graphene-enhanced battery casings
Australian battery casing company, Vaulta, has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding with Braille, Grafoid and Focus Graphite.
Vaulta signed the MOU to pair its innovative graphene-based cell casing technology with three Canadian companies focused on battery energy solutions and the development of creative applications for graphene. Vaulta will work with Braille Energy Systems Inc. (BESI), Focus Graphite Inc. and Grafoid Inc. to conduct market analysis to identify new sectors of interest and co-developed projects.
Q&A with Dominic Spooner, director of graphene-enhanced battery casings Vaulta
Vaulta is an Australia-based startup that focuses on graphene-enhanced battery casings. Vaulta's director, Dominic Spooner, had a chat with the Graphene-Info team to help shed some light on this fascinating young company, it's technology and plans for the future.
Dominic has over 12 years’ experience as a design engineer and has worked in a wide range of industries including renewables and batteries, defense and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. He reveals that the idea for Vaulta came to him after working directly in the field of battery design and seeing an opportunity for growth that was largely being overlooked in favor of continuing with the status quo of battery module design. Dominic founded Ember Design House in 2017 undertaking general product from R&D to production and in 2019, he founded Vaulta to focus fully on the battery casing industry and turn his product ideas into reality.
Graphene-enhanced battery casing developer, Vaulta, enters agreement with Australian aerospace manufacturer
A new Australian battery casing company called Vaulta has announced that it is working with Quickstep, Australia’s largest independent aerospace advanced composites manufacturer, to develop smarter technology for renewables, manned and unmanned drones and electric flight.
The two Australian companies have signed a memorandum of understanding to pair Vaulta’s innovative graphene-enhanced cell casing technology with Quickstep’s manufacturing capability and market reach as it looks to move further into the high-growth market of electric-powered land and air vehicles. The two companies will be actively working together on a joint proposal for Australian Defense.
