Blue Functionality brings vanadium solid-state battery (VSB) systems to North America — non-flammable, 20+ year-lived, and modular. One chemistry, integrated for Marinas, Yards, and Sites; charging stations, data centers, grid-scale storage, and emergency power.
We don't manufacture cells. We design, integrate, and deploy the systems built on them.
Blue Functionality is the North American commercial-integration partner for Vanadis Energy — combining deep domain expertise in uncrewed maritime systems, government contracting, and advanced-energy commercialization to build the supply relationships and certification pathways for vanadium solid-state battery (VSB) deployment across the continent.
We handle application engineering, system integration — marinizing, containerizing, or rack-mounting VSB packs for the operating environment — go-to-market development, and the regulatory and certification pathways: fire codes, grid interconnection, and marine class approvals.
Vanadis Energy · MK Plus · RISE · Agellus Marine and LandVanadium solid-state introduces a new class of energy storage — ultra-safe, easy to install, and built for reliable, high-power performance: energy storage as infrastructure. Our contribution is platform integration across marine, microgrid, and industrial duty cycles.
Multi-hour firming where 4-hour lithium-ion runs out — sized to the load, not to a fixed window.
Solid electrolyte. Cannot ignite, vent, or run away thermally. Insurable at community and venue scale.
15,000+ cycles with limited capacity fade and no mandatory rest period — supports long-tenor debt.
A single mineral. No lithium, cobalt, or nickel — no exposure to those supply chains or price swings.
≈85% of cell material is recovered at end of life and returned to new cells. Circular by design.
10–15× faster than lithium, with no derating in a hot room and no cooling overhead built around the cell.
Lithium still wins on energy density — where every kilogram has to move with the vehicle. But once you can recharge in minutes instead of hours, density stops being the constraint — and non-flammable VSB wins everywhere fire risk, cooling load, and replacement cycles matter more than range: on the pier, in the battery room, beside the crowd, and at sea aboard an uncrewed host.
A non-flammable buffer is the last thing a dock or an uncrewed vessel wants to set on fire — and exactly what the marine energy transition has been missing.
A marinized VSB energy buffer aboard an autonomous surface vessel turns AUV recharge downtime into observing time — replenishing a survey swarm on station so it collects more data, over wider coverage, at lower cost per km², without returning to port.
One container charges 2–6 electric boats at full rate from the feeder you already have — banking off-peak power so the dock never needs a six-figure utility upgrade. Turns "we can't charge here" into "plug in and go."
A non-flammable buffer sized to duty-cycle demand, not lithium's derating curve — power-dense enough for maneuvering loads, safe enough for a berth or a passenger deck, and fast enough to top up between runs instead of parking for a charge.
High-power ride-through and multi-hour firming — without the fire load, cooling overhead, or replacement cycle that lithium drags into a building.
Carries AI racks through the transfer to standby and is ready for the next event — no derating in a hot room, no fire-suppression overhead. Drops onto the UPS footprint and one-line you already have, and ends the 8–10 year replacement cycle.
Deploys in under 30 minutes, runs silent and fuel-free, and lasts the outage — safe beside crowds and inside venues, where new diesel gensets are 70+ weeks out and can't be added before the event anyway.
Ranches, lodges, mining, construction, research, and defense microgrids — multi-hour storage with no genset hours, no heat signature, and no refueling crew. Peak-shave and arbitrage where the grid is thin or absent.
Vanadium is a single, recoverable mineral. At end of life, roughly 85% of the cell material is recovered and flows back into new cells — no rare earths, no cobalt, no nickel, no hazmat to dispose of. The electrolyte is largely re-usable, so the chemistry is circular rather than consumed.
Paired with a 20-year design life, that's three to four lithium replacement cycles avoided before the loop even closes — a materially lower lifecycle footprint, and the single-mineral, recyclable, long-life story that ESG procurement now rewards.
The technology is timely because the market moved to meet it — on safety, on demand, on supply, and on regulation.
Fire-code setbacks have tightened and insurance underwriting has hardened across regulated facilities — pricing lithium's fire risk into siting and coverage.
IMO, IMDG, DNV, and ABS rules are built around lithium's fire risk — and ABS has already qualified vanadium chemistry as inherently non-flammable, opening a faster classification path for VSB at sea.
GPU clusters swing power by hundreds of kW in an instant, creating urgent need for safe, zero-cooling ride-through the room can stand.
Uncrewed observation is growing fast, but recharge speed and lithium freight restrictions remain the hard constraints on coverage.
Single-mineral, ≈85%-recyclable, 20-year systems beat lithium's supply-chain and end-of-life footprint where buyers now score it.
Regional, secure, and redevelopable — enabling a credible North American production pathway.
One platform, sized to the job — from a containerized drop-in unit to a rack that bridges an AI cluster. Here's how the chemistry stacks up.
| What matters on site | Lithium-ion (NMC / LiPo) | LFP (LiFePO₄) | VSB — Vanadium Solid-State |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire / thermal runaway | Propagating; needs suppression, vents, setbacks | Reduced but real — runaway above ~270 °C | None — non-flammable, no off-gas, no propagation |
| Cycle life (deep) | 500 – 2,000 | 3,000 – 6,000 | 15,000+ |
| Service life | 5 – 8 years | 10 – 12 years | 20+ years |
| Fast-charge | 0.5C – 3C | 0.5C – 3C (EV-class cells) | Up to 60C |
| Operating temperature | 0 to +45 °C (active cooling required) | −20 to +60 °C (still wants cooling) | −40 to +100 °C, no active cooling |
| Freight / DG class | UN 3480 / 3481, Class 9; ≤30% SoC on aircraft | UN 3480 / 3481, Class 9; same DG burden | Non-hazmat; dead-safe at 0 V; not restricted |
| Recyclability | ~50% recoverable | ~50% recoverable | ≈85% of cell material recovered |
Specifications indicative; final ratings confirmed per project. See "Circular by design" for what's behind the ≈85% recovery figure.
The chemistry is field-proven and the supply chain is real — in grid stabilization, fleet trials, and a selected international scale-up programme.
Vanadium solid-state cell and platform developer. Blue Functionality is its North American commercial-integration partner.
Manufactures VSB cells under partner agreement, with European delivery via EM Plus.
Five-year R&D agreement underpinning the chemistry; field-proven in grid stabilization in Sweden and Poland.
Energy-industry robotics and autonomy partner for power and duty-cycle profiling, integration, and the certification engineering path.
Selected for the ScaleX programme, with pilots underway and supported manufacturing planned.
Grid stabilization in Europe, fleet trials, and integration into a 4 kWh USV power system — core packs at TRL 5–6.
Share your application, power and energy needs, and we'll prepare a tailored VSB configuration for your deployment.
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