Friday, June 30, 2017

DAILY VOICE: Lithium Producer Now In Yonkers

The 'Battery Of The Future' Is Being Made In Yonkers

by Jeanne Muchnick

YONKERS, N.Y. -- Imagine not having to charge your cellphone for two weeks, due to a new, stronger battery. Or owning a battery-powered car that could go twice the distance of a Tesla with 1/10 the charge time (a Tesla currently needs six and a half hours to recharge and can go 200 miles before conking out).

Jerome Feldman, the chairman and founder of Westchester-based alpha-En Corporation believes it's possible thanks to high purity lithium metal and associated products his company is working on.

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Alpha-En Corporation doesn't make batteries but is behind the production of lithium metal, the key source of a battery's power.

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Alpha-En Corporation is in iPark -- the former Otis complex.

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