A few months after selling its bankrupt business to a Chinese company, Waltham battery maker A123 Systems LLC is starting an incubator to help startups refine and more quickly commercialize their energy storage technologies.
New division A123 Venture Technologies is offering startups its research and development expertise, lab space and funding.
But at least one expert reached by the Herald yesterday was skeptical.
Litchfield Hills Research analyst Theodore O'Neill said the incubator "looks like bait to try to lure in a new technology that would incorporate A123's batteries and doesn't require A123 to figure it out."
"There is some technology that they've got that is useful if you're trying to generate energy really fast," he said. "This doesn't look like a bad idea at all, but it's all but saying that A123 can't figure out what it is that will make money."
The company said it sees some real advantages to establishing the incubator.
"We have a market around ... batteries and automotive, but a lot of what's going to come is high-energy technologies for electric vehicles," said Mujeeb Ijaz, chief technology officer of A123 Systems, now owned by Wanxiang Group. "We need to prepare for that. We thought the best the way to leverage the assets that we built ... is to open the lab to developers."
Earlier this year, A123 Systems Inc., which focused on batteries and battery systems for electric vehicles and received millions of dollars in state and federal taxpayer money, won government approval for the $257 million sale of most of its assets to the Chinese auto parts conglomerate. A123 had filed for bankruptcy protection last fall after being dragged down by manufacturing and safety issues, and insufficient orders.
"I don't think our company going bankrupt is a sign that we don't know how to commercialize technology. The market wasn't ready for global commercialization at the time when we were ready, and we had no other business to rely on to fund our balance sheet," Ijaz said.
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