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Edward Shaffer
Dr. Edward O. Shaffer II is the CEO and founder of Advanced Battery Concepts, a Clare, Michigan company he started in 2009 to reinvent the 160-year-old lead-acid battery instead of chasing lithium. His patented GreenSeal bipolar architecture strips cost, lead and weight out of large-format storage while keeping the batteries fully recyclable, and it has been licensed to battery makers around the world including Crown, Clarios, EnerSys, Exide, Trojan and Monbat. An MIT-trained materials scientist and former Dow Chemical R&D manager, Shaffer argues that energy storage only scales when it is economically, socially and environmentally responsible - all three at once.
Advanced Battery Concepts
Advanced Battery Concepts is a Clare, Michigan battery maker that did something contrarian: instead of chasing lithium, it went back to lead-acid and reinvented it. Its patented GreenSeal bipolar architecture cuts lead content while boosting cycle life, and the company has licensed the design to global battery giants like Clarios, EnerSys, Exide, Crown and Trojan. With its EverGreenSeal line and BatteryBarn utility systems, ABC builds non-flammable, fully recyclable, domestically manufactured energy storage for critical infrastructure and the grid.