Battery R&D ROI calculator

Headcount12 people · $2.50M/yr

Count

Salary low

Salary high

Battery / test engineersR&D engineers building & running cells

Modeling / data scientistsSimulation & battery modeling staff

Lab techniciansScale with # of channels

Lab & hardware160 ch · 8 chambers · 75% util

Channels (cycler)Independent testing channels

Thermal chambersTemperature-controlled enclosures

Depreciation scheduleUseful life of cyclers (years)

Cost per channel (installed)Cycler + wiring + rack per channel

Channel utilization% of year channels & chambers are actively running

75%

Energy & facility assumptions

Avg W per channelWhen actively cycling

Avg W per thermal chamberCompressors + heaters, averaged when running

Sq ft per channelIncludes aisles & support

Low

High

Electricity ($/kWh)Commercial/industrial rate

Facility ($/sqft/yr)Lab-grade space, fully loaded

Cell program640 cells/yr · $25K/yr

Cells/yr

Source

Low $/cell

High $/cell

Coin cellCR2032-type

Cylindrical 18650R&D build or OEM

Cylindrical 21700R&D build or OEM

PouchSingle / multi-layer

Stacked prismaticR&D scale

Switch Source to In-house build (materials + labor) or Off-the-shelf (purchased cells), or set to Not used to zero out.

Ionworks levers

Testing reduction

50%

—

anchored to $631K testing pool · ~80.0 channels freed

R&D time freed

30%

—

anchored to $2.13MR&D payroll · ~3.1 FTE equivalents

Software consolidation

60%

—

4.8 seats dropped · 8 seats at $12,000/seat/yr

Faster launch

0mo

—

set program value & months to include in gross

Software license details

Seats (modeling / cycler firmware)

Avg $ / seat / yr

West Coast US

Annual lab spend · mid-point

$2.76M

range: $1.97M – $3.54M

Per channel · per year

$17K

160 channels total

3-year cumulative

$8.27M

before Ionworks

Spend breakdown$2.76M / yr

Engineers$1.23M · 44%

Modelers$900K · 33%

Technicians$370K · 13%

Cells$25K · 1%

Cycler dep.$128K · 5%

Energy$24K · 1%

Facility$84K · 3%

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