Battery X Metals Presents Positive Preliminary Lithium-Ion Battery Rebalancing Trial Results Demonstrating Significant Estimated Driving Range Improvements and Accelerated Commercialization Progress of Its Patent-Pending Lithium-Ion Battery Rebalancing Technology Platform
News Release Highlights:
- Battery X Metals' patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing platform has demonstrated positive preliminary estimated driving range improvements of up to approximately 255 kilometres across real-world electric vehicle performance trials, supporting meaningful battery capacity recovery, advanced diagnostics, sustained performance recovery, and validation across multiple commercial and passenger EV platforms.
- The Company has strengthened its intellectual property portfolio through completion of its International Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) patent application, preserving priority rights while establishing a pathway to pursue patent protection in more than 150 countries. Concurrently, Battery X Metals has completed or is actively advancing compatibility development across five strategic electric vehicle platforms, including the Nissan Leaf, Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, Hyundai Ioniq, Chevrolet Volt, and the VMC 1200 electric truck.
- Battery X Metals is accelerating commercialization through the advancement of an integrated EV battery diagnostics platform utilizing an onboard diagnostics (OBD-II) interface, together with continued development of its Rebalancing Machine hardware and software ecosystem, including wireless connectivity, standardized battery health reporting, commercial hardware refinements, and UL certification initiatives, positioning its patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing technology platform for broader commercial deployment.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – July 10, 2026 – Battery X Metals Inc. (CSE:BATX) (OTCQB:BATXF) (FSE:5YW0, WKN:A41RJF) (“Battery X Metals” or the “Company”) an energy transition resource exploration and technology company, announces a commercialization update for its patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing technology platform, highlighting preliminary performance validation achieved through real-world electric vehicle performance trials, together with commercialization initiatives intended to support broader market deployment.
Over the past twelve months, Battery X Metals has advanced its patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing technology platform through real-world performance trials, integrated battery diagnostics, long-term performance verification and compatibility expansion across multiple electric vehicle platforms. Collectively, these milestones represent the Company's continued transition from technology validation toward commercialization.
As increasing numbers of electric vehicles transition beyond their original battery warranty coverage, Battery X Metals believes demand for technologies capable of extending battery lifespan, restoring usable battery capacity and reducing total cost of ownership will continue to grow. Accordingly, the Company is advancing a series of commercialization initiatives intended to support manufacturing readiness, expand platform compatibility, strengthen strategic industry relationships and position the Rebalancing Machine for broader commercial deployment.
In parallel with these technical and commercialization advancements, and as previously announced, the Company has strengthened its intellectual property portfolio through completion of its International Patent Cooperation Treaty ("PCT") patent application. The application preserves priority rights from the Company's previously filed U.S. provisional patent applications while establishing a pathway to pursue patent protection in more than 150 countries. Battery X Metals believes this milestone enhances the long-term defensibility of its proprietary technology platform while supporting future commercialization, licensing opportunities, strategic partnerships and international market expansion.
Performance Validation of Patent-Pending Lithium-Ion Battery Rebalancing Machine
Through its wholly owned subsidiary, Battery X Rebalancing Technologies Inc., Battery X Metals has developed a next-generation, patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing platform (the "Rebalancing Machine") designed to restore usable battery capacity lost through naturally occurring lithium-ion cell imbalance, extend the remaining useful life of electric vehicle battery packs and reduce the need for premature battery replacement.
Over the past year, the Company has completed a series of real-world electric vehicle performance trials designed to evaluate the Rebalancing Machine across progressively broader operating conditions, battery configurations and vehicle platforms. Collectively, these preliminary validation activities have demonstrated measurable improvements in battery capacity utilization, advanced diagnostic capability, long-term performance retention and applicability across multiple commercial and passenger electric vehicle platforms.
These validation activities have included two Class 3 commercial electric truck trials, a long-term durability assessment, a passenger electric vehicle performance trial and independent evaluations conducted by multiple international arm's-length automotive service centres utilizing the Company's patent-pending Rebalancing Machine across several BYD electric vehicle platforms.
Collectively, these evaluations demonstrated estimated driving range improvements of up to approximately 255 kilometres, successful identification of defective battery cells requiring targeted corrective intervention, sustained battery performance following more than 2,000 kilometres of continued real-world operation, restoration of an otherwise inoperable passenger electric vehicle battery pack to an average estimated driving range of approximately 135.9 kilometres, and estimated driving range improvements of up to approximately 84 kilometres across multiple BYD electric vehicle platforms.
Taken together, these preliminary validation activities demonstrate the Rebalancing Machine's ability to restore usable battery capacity lost through naturally occurring lithium-ion cell imbalance, integrate advanced battery diagnostics to identify cell-level defects requiring targeted corrective intervention, sustain recovered battery performance during continued real-world operation and deliver measurable performance improvements across multiple electric vehicle platforms and battery configurations.
Platform Expansion Supporting Commercialization Initiatives
A foundational component of the Company's commercialization strategy is the systematic expansion of the Rebalancing Machine's compatibility across high-volume electric vehicle battery platforms. Through its ongoing research and development program, Battery X Metals continues to advance the engineering of proprietary battery adaptors and connector solutions designed to enable the Rebalancing Machine to interface with an expanding range of lithium-ion battery architectures commonly found in out-of-warranty electric vehicles.
The Company has successfully completed development of proprietary battery adaptors providing compatibility across the Nissan Leaf and VMC 1200 Class 3 commercial electric truck platforms, while adaptor engineering initiatives are actively advancing for the Tesla Model 3 and Model Y, Hyundai Ioniq and Chevrolet Volt battery platforms. Collectively, these initiatives reflect a disciplined commercialization strategy focused on systematically expanding compatibility across strategically important commercial fleet and passenger electric vehicle platforms.
As additional vehicle platforms are incorporated into the Rebalancing Machine ecosystem, Battery X Metals believes it will continue to strengthen the commercial applicability of its patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing technology platform while positioning the Company to address the growing market for battery diagnostics, battery rebalancing and battery lifespan-extension solutions as increasing numbers of electric vehicles transition beyond their original battery warranty coverage.
Accelerated Commercialization Initiatives
Building upon these preliminary validation milestones, Battery X Metals continues to advance a series of commercialization initiatives intended to strengthen its product offering, support manufacturing readiness and establish the operational framework necessary for broader commercial deployment of its patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing technology platform.
As part of this strategy, the Company has been evaluating the integration of an EV battery diagnostics platform utilizing an onboard diagnostics (OBD-II) interface together with a complementary software platform designed to support battery health assessment and standardized reporting. Through communication with a vehicle's battery management system, the diagnostics platform is expected to retrieve key battery health information, including state of health, cell voltages, cell temperatures and other operating parameters relevant to battery condition.
The Company believes battery diagnostics represent the first stage of a broader battery lifecycle management ecosystem by enabling battery condition to be evaluated before recommending corrective intervention where lithium-ion cell imbalance has been identified as a contributing factor to battery performance degradation.
In parallel, Battery X Metals continues to advance development of its commercial software ecosystem, which is expected to include an intuitive operator interface, wireless connectivity supporting over-the-air software updates, cloud-based battery history management and automated generation of standardized battery health reports.
The Company has also completed commercial hardware design refinements for the Rebalancing Machine and continues to evaluate next-generation production initiatives intended to support manufacturing readiness and broader commercial deployment. Subject to continued product development and customary commercial considerations, the Company intends to advance the platform through applicable third-party product testing and certification processes, including Underwriters Laboratories (UL) certification where appropriate.
Transitioning Toward Commercial Execution
The milestones summarized herein reflect the continued evolution of Battery X Metals' patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing technology platform through successive stages of development, including technology validation, integrated battery diagnostics, long-term performance verification, platform compatibility expansion, software enhancement and commercial hardware refinement.
Building upon these technical and operational achievements, the Company's focus is increasingly directed toward commercial execution through continued compatibility expansion, manufacturing readiness, software development, product certification and broader market deployment initiatives intended to support commercialization of the Rebalancing Machine.
The Problem: Rising EV Adoption Presents New Battery Lifecycle Challenges
In 2024, global EV sales reached approximately 17.1 million units, representing a 25% increase from 2023.7 With cumulative global EV sales from 2015 to 2023 totaling an estimated over 40 million units,8 a significant share of the global EV fleet is expected to exit warranty coverage over the coming years. 9,10
By 2031, nearly 40 million electric, plug-in hybrid, and hybrid vehicles worldwide are anticipated to fall outside of their original warranty coverage.9,10 This projection is based on current EV adoption figures and standard industry warranty terms, and underscores a growing risk for EV owners facing battery degradation, reduced capacity, and costly replacement requirements.11 As the global EV fleet continues to expand, the demand for technologies that extend battery life, reduce long-term ownership costs, and support a sustainable transition to electric mobility is increasing.
The Solution: Pioneering Next-Generation Technologies to Support Lithium-Ion Battery Longevity
Battery X Rebalancing Technologies’ proprietary software and hardware technology aims to address this challenge by extending the lifespan of EV batteries. This innovation is being developed with the aim to enhance the sustainability of electric transportation and the goal to provide EV owners with a more cost-effective, environmentally friendly ownership experience by reducing the need for costly battery replacements.
Battery X Rebalancing Technologies’ rebalancing technology, validated by the National Research Council of Canada (“NRC”), focuses on battery cell rebalancing. The NRC validation demonstrated the technology’s ability to effectively correct cell imbalances in lithium-ion battery packs, recovering nearly all lost capacity due to cell imbalance. The validation was conducted on battery modules composed of fifteen 72Ah LiFePO₄ cells connected in series. The cells were initially balanced to a uniform state of charge (SOC), with a measured discharge capacity of 71.10Ah. In the validation test, three of the fifteen cells were then artificially imbalanced—one cell was charged to a 20% higher SOC, and two cells were discharged to a 20% lower SOC—resulting in a reduced discharge capacity of 46.24Ah, representing a decrease of approximately 35%. Following rebalancing using Battery X Rebalancing Technologies’ rebalancing technology, the battery module’s discharge capacity was restored to 70.94Ah, representing the recovery of approximately 99% of the capacity lost due to cell imbalance.
These advancements establish Battery X Rebalancing Technologies as a participant in lithium-ion and EV battery solutions, aiming to tackle the critical challenges of capacity degradation of battery packs and expensive replacements. By extending the lifecycle of battery materials within the supply chain, Battery X Rebalancing Technologies aims to support the energy transition and promote a more sustainable future.
The Results disclosed herein are based on preliminary trial conditions and may not be representative of all vehicle models or usage scenarios. Results may vary depending on vehicle type, battery type and condition, driving behavior, usage, and operating environment.
1 Nissan Global Newsroom, 2 U.S. Department of Energy, 3 GCBC, 4 GCBC, 5 Edmunds, 6 CleanTechnica, 7 Rho Motion – Global EV Sales 2024, 8 IEA Global EV Outlook 2024, 9 IEA, 10 U.S. News, 11 Recurrent Auto
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About Battery X Metals Inc.
Battery X Metals (CSE:BATX) (OTCQB:BATXF) (FSE:5YW0, WKN: A41RJF) is an energy transition resource exploration and technology company committed to advancing domestic battery and critical metal resource exploration and developing next-generation proprietary technologies. Taking a diversified, 360° approach to the battery metals industry, the Company focuses on exploration, lifespan extension, and recycling of lithium-ion batteries and battery materials. For more information, visit batteryxmetals.com.
On Behalf of the Board of Directors
Massimo Bellini Bressi, Director
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Massimo Bellini Bressi
Chief Executive Officer
Email: mbellini@batteryxmetals.com
Tel: (604) 694-9823
Disclaimer for Forward-Looking Information
This news release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of applicable securities laws. Forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements regarding the Company's business plans, objectives, development and commercialization of its patent-pending lithium-ion battery rebalancing technology platform, anticipated product capabilities and performance, battery diagnostics initiatives, platform compatibility expansion, manufacturing readiness, product certification, intellectual property protection, strategic relationships, market opportunities, and future commercialization activities. Forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations, assumptions and estimates that are believed to be reasonable as of the date of this news release. However, such statements are subject to a variety of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These risks include, without limitation, risks relating to technology development, commercialization, product testing and certification, intellectual property protection, market acceptance, financing, regulatory matters, strategic relationships, and general economic and market conditions. There can be no assurance that the Company's technology will achieve anticipated commercial results, that preliminary trial results will be replicated in broader commercial applications, or that the Company will successfully achieve its commercialization objectives or obtain anticipated certifications, patent protection or market adoption. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on forward-looking statements. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. Readers are encouraged to review the Company's continuous disclosure filings available under its profile on SEDAR+.