ClimateTech / EnergyGreater Charlotte

RELiON Battery

ClimateTech / Energy · Rock Hill, SC

LiFePO4 (lithium iron phosphate) drop-in batteries for RV, marine, EV, and solar/storage applications. Acquired 2021 by Brunswick Corporation (Advanced Systems Group / electrification division). True HQ Rock Hill, SC (part of the Census Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia MSA) -- included in the Charlotte cluster per operator direction, not literally within North Carolina.

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Greater Charlotte

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About Charlotte

Second only to New York as a US banking center, Charlotte carries Bank of America's and Truist's headquarters (the NCNB/First Union roots that built "Wall Street of the South") alongside a genuinely emerging battery and EV-materials cluster -- lithium recycling (Li Industries), battery separator manufacturing (Green New Energy Materials), and EV fast-charging hardware (Alpitronic's US headquarters). The region is also nicknamed "Race City USA": while NASCAR's own corporate headquarters sits in Daytona Beach, the vast majority of its teams' race shops -- Hendrick Motorsports, Team Penske, Joe Gibbs Racing, Richard Childress Racing -- are physically based here, making Charlotte the sport's real operational center of gravity even though its sanctioning body isn't headquartered here.

Region Stats

Total firms 25

VC / investors 4

Companies 21

Universities 0

Known For

Banking

Battery & EV Materials

Motorsports