“This is a strategic investment that will further help reinforce GM’s efforts in EV batteries, accelerate our work on affordable battery chemistries like LMFP and support our efforts to build a US.-focused battery supply chain,” said Gil Golan, GM vice president, Technology Acceleration and Commercialization.

Mitra Chem’s battery R&D facility can simulate, synthesize and evaluate thousands of cathode designs monthly, ranging in size from grams to kilograms. GM claimed these processes result in shortened “learning cycles, enabling shorter time to market for new battery cell formulas.”

Mitra Chem’s lab, using simulations and what it calls “physics-informed machine learning models to accelerate formulation discovery, cathode synthesis optimization, cell-lifetime evaluation and process scale-up. The in-house cloud platform, purpose-built for battery cathode development, automates data ingestion across diverse synthesis, material characterization, cell prototyping, and standardized analyses and visualizations.”