High Performance Battery Packs Using Domestic Materials for Compact Off-Highway Machines
Summary
SCH Number
2026010766
Public Agency
California Energy Commission
Document Title
High Performance Battery Packs Using Domestic Materials for Compact Off-Highway Machines
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
1/23/2026
Document Description
Under agreement EPC-25-028, the California Energy Commission will provide a $1,959,011 grant to Tyfast Energy Corp. to help fund the development of a high-performance battery pack using Tyfast's lithium vanadium oxide (LVO) technology that has been validated with third party testing to deliver high- rate charge and discharge, extended cycle life, and the ability to cycle below freezing temperatures. The goal of these efforts is to fabricate a battery pack to demonstrate the high-performance capabilities of the LVO technology to potential original equipment manufacturer customers developing off-highway compact equipment. Beneficiaries will include manufacturers of off-highway compact equipment who purchase the future technology, and those who buy and use such products, including ratepayers of the electric Investor-Owned Utilities in California.
Contact Information
Name
Jemar Roble Tan
Agency Name
California Energy Commission
Job Title
Energy Commission Specialist
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Haodong Liu
Agency Name
Tyfast Energy Corp.
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Coordinates
Cities
San Diego
Counties
San Diego
Regions
Citywide
Cross Streets
8909 Kenamar Drive, Suite 102
Zip
92121
Other Location Info
2 sites:
8909 Kenamar Drive, Suite 102 - R&D
3183 Matthews Ln, La Jolla, CA - Battery testing.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, § 15301
Reasons for Exemption
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, 15301 Existing Facilities: provides an exemption from CEQA for the operation, repair, maintenance, permitting, leasing, licensing, or minor alteration of existing structures, facilities, mechanical equipment or topographical features involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing. This project will conduct research, development, and manufacturing within already existing facilities with only minor interior alterations through the addition of small-scale fabrication equipment. There will be negligible or no expansion of existing use. Therefore, the project falls within section 15301 and will not have a significant effect on the environment.
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Cal. Code Regs., tit. 14, Section 15306
Reasons for Exemption
Information Collection, exempts from CEQA projects that consist of basic data collection, research, experimental management, and resource evaluation activities which do not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource. The proposed project activities fall within these categories. For these reasons, the proposed project will have no significant effect on the environment and is categorically exempt under section 15306.
Exempt Status
Other
Type, Section or Code
Government Code sections 65962.5
Reasons for Exemption
This project does not involve impacts on any particularly sensitive environment; any cumulative impacts of successive projects of the same type in the same place that might be considered significant; does not involve unusual circumstances that might have a significant effect on the environment; will not result in damage to scenic resources within a highway officially designated as a state scenic highway; the project sites are not included on any list compiled pursuant to Government Code section 65962.5, and the project will not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource. Therefore, none of the exceptions to categorical exemptions listed in CEQA Guidelines section 15300.2 apply to this project, and this project will not have a significant effect on the environment.
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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