Feb. 3, 2006 – Altair Nanotechnologies Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTI) announced that its facility in Anderson, Ind., has begun manufacturing and testing the first batch of lithium ion battery cells made utilizing its nano-structured electrode materials.
The company says its Anderson facility is a rapid design, prototyping and applications lab for high power, lithium ion cells, batteries and battery packs. In the latest testing of its nano-structured battery cells, Altairnano says it demonstrated that 90 percent of room temperature charge retention has been achieved at minus 30 degrees Celsius.