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Ovonic Battery – Overview

Ovonic Consumer Battery

NiMH Batteries: Proven Performance and Cost Advantages

  • All commercial HEVs use NiMH
  • Strong NiMH consumer growth
  • Dominant IP portfolio for NiMH batteries
  • Worldwide NiMH production under license
  • Safe, environmentally friendly, recyclable
  • Higher performance consumer NiMH provides:
         – Cost, energy, power, life, temperature, shelf life benefits
  • Fundamental materials improvements continue

Design Flexibility

NiMH Dominates HEV

Consumer Retail Growth at 30-40% Annually, 36 Licensees


Ovonic Battery Company is the inventor of the Nickel Metal-Hydride (NiMH) battery. Our technology is manufactured under license worldwide.

Licensee List

To support these licensees, Ovonic Battery manufactures advanced nickel hydroxide powders, including Greenlife® a high temperature material that allows NiMH batteries to operate at temperatures as high as 70°C (158°F)

Ovonic Nickel Hydroxide

Ongoing research and development is pushing Ovonic battery technology to new levels of performance and opening new applications. See our most recent technical presentation below.

"Advanced Ovonic Battery Technology - NiMH, Li-Ion Cathodes, Proton-Ion", presented at the Avicenne Batteries 2011 Congress, September 29, 2011.

Ovonic Battery is developing products and seeking strategic partners to commercialize NiMH batteries for stationary service; both traditional back-up power and new utility grid energy storage applications.

Stationary Battery

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