Battery Cost & Performance Modeling Workshop & Certification with Dr. Julia Lamb - The Battery Saloon
Battery Cost & Performance Modeling Workshop
Hands-On Techno-Economic Analysis & Certification with The Battery Saloon and Dr. Julia Lamb, Founder, CellVision (open-source battery TEA tool)
Eight weeks, beginning 28 September 2026
After a run of high-profile battery business failures, investors and government reviewers increasingly expect a defensible techno-economic model before they write a cheque. At a minimum, a TEA forces you to question your own assumptions. At its best, a TEA becomes the core pillar of a business model, inseparable from the cost-down roadmap and expected market volumes.
This eight-week workshop gives students, industrialists, investors, entrepreneurs, and consultants the fundamental skills needed to build and critically evaluate battery TEAs, from materials through to levelized cost of storage.
WHAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO DO
Build a material TEA from first principles, and defend every assumption in it.
Translate material-level capacity into cell-level capacity, then into a bill of materials.
Model electrode and cell manufacturing cost (yields, fill factors, formation) and check it against published teardowns.
Scale from cell to module, pack, and storage block, and land on LCOS.
Read someone else’s model and find the assumptions driving the results.
COURSE OUTLINESept 28 – Oct 2
What a TEA is and why it’s important
Building a TEA: Sources, assumptions, validation, & best practices
Oct 5 – 9 Material TEAs: cathodes
Virtual, live discussion session (Friday)
Assignment 1
Oct 12 – 16
Material TEAs: anodes
Electrode & cell: from chemistry to capacity, material capacity to cell capacity
Oct 19 – 23
Electrode & cell: modeling volume change
Virtual, live discussion session (Friday)
Assignment 2
Oct 26 – 30
Electrode & cell: full-cell voltage windows and power implications
Electrode & cell manufacturing TEA: BOM, yields, fill factors, formation, comparison to published teardowns
Nov 2 – 6
Modules, packs, and storage blocks
Virtual, live discussion session (Friday)
Assignment 3
Nov 9 – 13
LCOS, TCO, and power Final Project
Nov 16 – 20
Written feedback on final projects
Virtual, live discussion session (Friday)
Starting Nov 23 - Tier 3 sessions
FORMAT AND TIME COMMITMENT
Lectures are pre-recorded, so you can work through them on your own schedule.
Discussion sessions are live and virtual, held on Fridays.
Tier 2&3 participants who cannot make a live session receive written summary notes.
Expect to spend between 2 to 5 hours per week on this course. On the low end if content is already familiar.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
TIER PRICE WHAT YOU GET BACKGROUND
1. Audit $300
One year of access to seven weeks of pre-recorded lectures covering materials through system-level TEA.
Open to all
2. Full course $1,100
Everything in Tier 1, plus four live group discussion sessions and graded assignments.
Every Tier 2 participant builds a cathode TEA with direct support and written feedback.
Pre-requisite: STEM, B.Sc.
3. Custom
project and certification
By quote: Everything in Tier 2, plus 1:1 sessions supporting a project of your choosing, typically a model you needed for your own work. Includes a full TEA review and certification from Dr. Lamb.
Pre-requisite: STEM, B.Sc.
HOW TO REGISTER
Registration closes Wednesday 23 September 2026.
Course Tier 2 & 3 seats are limited to ensure quality of participant feedback; first come first serve.
To sign up for the course:
1. Create a KX PERSONAL account and complete your profile on www.tekxale.tech. Please note that business accounts will not be able to access the course. You can link a business account to your personal account using the same email address in settings.
2. After completing your profile go to "Academy". You'll see the course and be able to make a payment for Tier 1 or 2. For Tier 3, please schedule a meeting with Julia and me.
3. First week lessons will be available on KX on Sep 28.
4. Registration deadline is Sep 23.
5. If you have any difficulties creating an account, finding the course, or making a payment, please email KX@thebatterysaloon.org.
About The Battery Saloon:
The Battery Saloon is a San Francisco-based deep tech battery technical commercialization hub founded in August 2024. We work with early-stage technical founders to build products designed for manufacturability, standardization, and scalability from the outset—while also teaching the art of storytelling and customer-driven product development.