Charged EVs | Holyvolt acquires Wildcat to pair high-throughput battery materials discovery with water-based cell manufacturing
Sweden’s Holyvolt has completed its $73 million acquisition of Wildcat Discovery Technologies, bringing together Wildcat’s high-throughput battery materials R&D platform and Holyvolt’s screen-printing, water-based manufacturing process. The companies say the combination is meant to bridge a familiar gap in the battery business: promising lab results that never make it efficiently into scalable production.
Wildcat has long been one of the more technically credible battery R&D outfits in the field. As Charged has covered over the years, the San Diego company built its reputation on a high-throughput combinatorial chemistry platform that can synthesize and evaluate battery materials far faster than conventional lab workflows, generating large structured datasets that are well-suited to AI-driven analysis.
Holyvolt’s manufacturing platform is based on screen-printing and water-based processing, positioned as an alternative or complement to conventional coating methods and solvent-based slurries. The company says that pairing with Wildcat will deliver cleaner, cheaper battery production with lower capital requirements, greater flexibility and more regionally anchored supply chains in Europe and North America.
“The acquisition of Wildcat is a perfect complement to our intended strategy of developing new technologies for the battery industry,” said Holyvolt founder and CEO Mathias Ingvarsson. “Holyvolt is focused on developing new processes to make batteries cleaner and more affordable, and Wildcat has been pursuing the same goals via materials development and better chemistry. Combined, we are building what we believe is the most compelling technology to deliver on these objectives.”
“The Wildcat team is thrilled with this acquisition by Holyvolt,” said Wildcat CEO Mark Gresser. “Mathias and team are very thoughtful with regard to their objectives in the battery industry, and recognise the value that Wildcat’s High Throughput Platform can deliver to our combined company and the industry at large. With Holyvolt’s vision and financial backing, Wildcat can finally unlock the true potential of high throughput combinatorial chemistry for battery materials.”
Source: Holyvolt / Wildcat Discovery Technologies
