Enzinc Inc.

Enzinc is an engineering technology company focused on developing advanced high performance green batteries to accelerate the energy transition. Its zinc microsponge ‘Enzinc Inside’ anode is a drop-in technology that can rapidly scale deployment of better batteries by using existing manufacturing infrastructure. The result is a powerful, safe, easily recyclable family of batteries that use readily available materials that replace lead acid and compete with most lithium iron phosphate batteries.

2009

Year Founded

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Richmond, CA

Private CompanyTechnology Innovators

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About Us

Enzinc is an engineering technology company focused on developing advanced high performance green batteries to accelerate the energy transition. Its zinc microsponge ‘Enzinc Inside’ anode is a drop-in technology that can rapidly scale deployment of better batteries by using existing manufacturing infrastructure. The result is a powerful, safe, easily recyclable family of batteries that use readily available materials that replace lead acid and compete with most lithium iron phosphate batteries. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, the company applies aerospace and automotive engineering practices to energy storage development.

Enzinc Inc.

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1
Number of publications
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8
Number of Grants and Awards
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$2.7m
Public Funding Awarded

Awards We've Won

$1.8m Bringing Rapid Innovation Development to Green Energy, or BRIDGE, award 2022 - to design and test a long duration stationary battery and build out a pilot anode manufacturing line

Keeling Curve Prize - demonstrated success in reducing, eliminating, avoiding, or drawing down greenhouse gasses out of the atmosphere

Global Automotive and Mobility Innovation Challenge, GAMIC - competition for automotive products/systems and mobility companies with new and innovative technologies

CalTestBed voucher $292,000 - for prototype testing at UC Riverside - 2021

CalSEED Phase II award $450,000 for prototype development  - 2021 

Named one of NAATBatt's Top Ten Emerging Battery Technologies of 2019

CalSEED Phase I award $150,000 for product research and development - 2019

ARPA-E RANGE grant for Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage research in conjunction with the Naval Research Laboratory $625,000

Our Sustainable Development Goals

Affordable and Clean Energy

Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Programs We’ve Been Selected For

BRIDGE CalSEED

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