Anti-aging EV battery additive that stables range, offers 75% more cycles

Over 75% more charge-discharge cycles — that is the performance gain delivered by TENIX, a patented cathode additive developed by Oklahoma-based Ten-Nine Technologies. The material stabilizes lithium-ion battery chemistry during operation, directly countering degradation mechanisms that normally limit lifespan and range.

Battery additive supply covers 50,000–200,000 EV packs

TENIX is blended into cathode material during standard manufacturing, occupying just 0.5–2% of total cathode weight — approximately 0.5–2 kilograms per 100 kilograms of cathode, matching the cathode mass found in a typical electric vehicle battery pack. Its integration requires no new equipment or redesign of existing battery architecture. At current production capacity of 100 tons annually, Ten-Nine Technologies can supply enough TENIX to treat between 50,000 and 200,000 typical EV battery packs.

“Just like people, batteries age. Products of chemical decomposition build up during use, limiting a battery’s performance and lifetime, and until now that’s just been treated as an unavoidable cost of doing business,” said Paige Johnson, Founder and CEO of Ten-Nine Technologies. “I’m a chemist so I wanted to fix that at the source rather than build a whole new battery to work around it. TENIX has a unique surface chemistry that disrupts that aging process, giving batteries more power and significantly longer life. I started this company in the back of a warehouse in Tulsa with $100,000 and four grams of material in a flask. I never imagined we’d end up here, but I always believed that if the chemistry was right, it would matter to a lot of people’s lives. That’s still what gets me up in the morning.”

How TENIX improves battery metrics beyond cycle life

In third-party testing, TENIX extended a typical EV battery’s usable life from a 150,000-mile warranty baseline to more than 265,000 miles. That increase corresponds to over 75% more charge-discharge cycles. The additive also reduces internal resistance by 10%, enabling faster charging and less energy loss as heat. According to a company press release, these improvements translate into roughly 40% lower cost per kilowatt-hour delivered over the battery’s full operational lifetime.

TENIX cuts a battery’s heat output by approximately 40% over its lifetime — a feature gaining urgency as AI-driven data centers demand increasingly intensive duty cycles from backup battery systems. This technical momentum coincides with a broader industry pivot toward manganese-rich cathodes: chemistries that are cheaper, more abundant, and less geopolitically concentrated than cobalt- and nickel-heavy alternatives currently dominant in EV batteries.

Manganese is mined across Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia — unlike cobalt and nickel, which are heavily concentrated in a small number of countries. That geographic diversification strengthens supply chain resilience for battery manufacturers and policymakers alike. Historically, manganese-rich cathodes have suffered from poor cycle life — precisely the limitation TENIX is engineered to overcome. Ten-Nine Technologies projects that widespread adoption could reshape the global cathode supply chain as profoundly as lithium iron phosphate (LFP) did two decades ago.