Lake Resources NL announced that it has appointed the respected Novonix Battery Technology Solutions, a Nova Scotia-based independent testing and development laboratory used by recognised battery makers, to produce NMC622-based lithium-ion battery test cells using Lake's battery quality lithium carbonate. Under the agreement with Novonix Limited, lithium carbonate samples provided by Lake will be used together with commercial battery cathode precursor materials to form an NMC622 cathode and battery. Novonix is currently developing `million mile' battery technologies with revolutionary anode and cathode materials and has designed and manufactured, and sells high precision battery testing equipment to Tier 1 battery makers and OEMs in 15 countries including Panasonic, CATL, Samsung, SK Innovation, Apple, Bosch, Honda and Dyson. Using Novonix's pilot cell line and proprietary advanced diagnostic tools, the performance of Lake's high purity, responsibly sourced lithium product will be evaluated for conformity with lithium-ion battery standards. Significantly, this data will allow potential users and off-takers of Lake's product to make direct and relevant comparisons of its performance to familiar cell chemistries. Lake recently appointed Colorado-based Hazen Research to produce lithium carbonate samples from the lithium chloride produced by Lake's technology partner, Lilac Solutions, at its pilot plant in California. Lilac has previously produced 99.9% pure lithium carbonate from this lithium chloride using the conventional lithium carbonate process. The first battery quality lithium carbonate samples are expected to be produced by Hazen within weeks. Lake is confident that high purity lithium carbonate will be confirmed because the results obtained from the pilot plant are similar to prior benchtop testing. The first batch of lithium carbonate will then be processed into NMC622 lithium-ion batteries by Novonix, which will take a minimum of four months, with the first results expected two months after the cathode material is produced.