These Plant-Based mostly Batteries From CES Are Coming to Your Devices Quickly

One of our favourite discoveries from final 12 months’s CES was a battery comprised of paper (particularly, cellulose from crops). And whereas the large tech present in Las Vegas is a spot the place cool applied sciences have a tendency to seem, seize consideration after which vanish, the splash Flint made with its batteries once more at CES 2026 was totally different. They’re truly coming to your devices.

That contains your fundamental AA and AAA batteries fabricated from renewable, sustainable supplies. They powered toy trains that chugged across the Flint sales space on the Las Vegas Convention Center.

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The first Flint paper batteries, anticipated to return to market, will probably be featured in merchandise from the corporate’s companions, comparable to Logitech and Amazon, founder Carlo Charles instructed me. Those AA and AAA batteries, that are anticipated to final about so long as conventional alkaline batteries, might hit the market later this 12 months. Another product, a super-thin battery, is being utilized in Apple equipment manufactured by Nimble.

The codecs of those batteries are acquainted as a result of Flint is not attempting to vary the best way our tech merchandise use batteries, simply how these batteries are made. “We do not want to completely disrupt it; we want it to fit with the existing world right now,” Charles stated.

Flint has began producing batteries in Singapore. The firm is utilizing native plant supplies and expects that would be the case because it produces in different places. It can use cellulose from all kinds of crops, making it an environmentally pleasant resolution reasonably than an issue.

“What I am most interested in is those invasive species plants,” Charles stated. “Every country has invasive species and governments just spend millions every year trying to take them out and just burn them. But why don’t we take those invasive species and then take the cellulose out of those species and use that for batteries?”

The firm’s battery elements — an anode, cathode, electrolyte and separator — are all made with cellulose, together with food-safe minerals comparable to zinc and manganese. “With all these combined, we are able to build a chemistry that is completely water-based and safer for the world,” Charles stated.

Flint hopes its strategy to battery making will catch on with different battery and digital part producers. Creating these things utilizing sustainable supplies can considerably cut back the environmental affect of all our devices and gizmos. On a CES present flooring stuffed wall-to-wall with lithium batteries, Flint reveals one various that’s lastly coming to market.