Lyten, a supermaterial purposes firm and innovator of 3D Graphene, has launched Lyten Motorsports, a brand new enterprise designed to deliver Lyten’s materials science improvements to motorsports components. Lyten Motorsports is launching in partnership with INDYCAR Expertise, bringing its 25-year expertise as a provider to motorsports circuits around the globe.
Lyten’s 3D Graphene is a foundational, carbon-based materials that may be tuned to satisfy the precise wants of high-performance purposes, influencing materials properties similar to energy, weight, conductivity, and permeability. Lyten is already using its 3D Graphene platform to construct lithium-sulfur batteries approaching 2X the power density of lithium-ion whereas eliminating 85% of the mined minerals, together with the elimination of nickel, cobalt, and graphite. Lyten is using the energy, weight, and conductivity of its supplies to design and construct components that additional push the boundaries of the strength-to-weight ratio in motorsports.
“Materials science is making a future that’s lighter, stronger, and safer, whereas lowering our influence on the planet,” stated Dan Cook dinner, Co-founder and CEO of Lyten. “Motorsports sit on the apex of supplies innovation, the place small enhancements make the distinction in velocity and security. The introduction of carbon fiber revolutionized the game, and we consider Lyten 3D Graphene will be the subsequent supplies revolution in motorsports.”
Lyten will proceed to execute supplies analysis and improvement at its Headquarters in Silicon Valley and has opened a design and manufacturing facility in Indianapolis, Indiana, for motorsport components, co-located with the INDYCAR Expertise headquarters. Lyten Motorsports is presently manufacturing 3D printed components using Lyten’s proprietary filaments and adhesives and rapidly increasing into autoclave manufacturing to satisfy market calls for, and shall be additional enhancing the efficiency of carbon fiber components and figuring out steel components that may now be transformed into lighter, lower-cost composite components. Lyten Motorsports plans to develop components for a broad vary of US and Worldwide racing sequence.
Lyten has been testing new materials designs on the INDYCAR Expertise 2-seat INDYCAR for greater than 2 years and can proceed to make use of the platform to speed up half improvement. The Lyten-sponsored INDYCAR Expertise 2-seater shall be lively all through this yr’s racing season, together with this yr’s Indy 500.
“Motorsports is a high-growth, technology-enabled business, and problem primary is pushing the bounds of identified supplies. There may be large demand for that subsequent supplies innovation, and Lyten has it with its 3D Graphene platform,” stated Scott Jasek, CEO of INDYCAR Expertise. “I’m excited to make use of our base in Indianapolis to scale up US manufacturing of motorsport components and convey with it technology-focused jobs.”
Lyten is a privately held firm with >$425M in fairness funding, together with funding from Stellantis, FedEx, Honeywell, Nokia, Prime Movers Lab, the European Funding Fund, and Luxembourg Future Fund. Its merchandise embrace lithium-sulfur batteries, composites, concrete, and sensors, all constructed on Lyten’s 3D Graphene supermaterials platform.
