- Lyten Motorsports to utilize Lyten’s proprietary 3D Graphene supermaterials platform to supply the motorsports industry with higher strength, lighter weight parts for enhanced speed and safety.
- Lyten Motorsports is headquartered in Indianapolis and built in partnership with INDYCAR Experience, bringing technology from Silicon Valley into the heart of motorsports innovation.
- Lyten Motorsports has been testing material designs with INDYCAR Experience for more than 2 years and will utilize Lyten’s proprietary 3D printing filaments and adhesive products in part designs.
Lyten, the supermaterial applications company and innovator of 3D Graphene, today announced the launch of Lyten Motorsports, a new venture designed to bring Lyten’s material science innovations to motorsports parts. Lyten Motorsports is launching in partnership with INDYCAR Experience, bringing its 25-year experience as a supplier to motorsports circuits around the world.
Lyten’s 3D Graphene is a foundational, carbon-based material that can be tuned to meet the specific needs of high-performance applications, impacting material properties like strength, weight, conductivity, and permeability. Lyten is already utilizing its 3D Graphene platform to build lithium-sulfur batteries approaching 2X the energy density of lithium-ion while eliminating 85% of the mined minerals, including elimination of nickel, cobalt, and graphite. Lyten is using the strength, weight, and conductivity of its materials to design and build parts that further push the limit of strength to weight ratio in motorsports.
“Material science is creating a future that is lighter, stronger and safer, while reducing our impact on the planet,” said Dan Cook, Lyten Co-Founder and CEO. “Motorsports sit at the apex of materials innovation, where small improvements make the difference in speed and safety. The introduction of carbon fiber revolutionized the sport, and we believe Lyten 3D Graphene can be the next materials revolution in motorsports.”
Lyten will continue to execute materials research and development at its Headquarters in Silicon Valley and has opened a design and manufacturing facility in Indianapolis, Indiana for motorsport parts, co-located with the INDYCAR Experience headquarters. Lyten Motorsports is currently manufacturing 3D printed parts utilizing Lyten’s proprietary filaments and adhesives and quickly expanding into autoclave manufacturing to meet market demands. Lyten will be further enhancing the performance of carbon fiber parts and identifying metal parts that can now be converted into lighter, lower cost composite parts. Lyten Motorsports plans to develop parts for a broad range of US and International racing series.
Lyten has been testing new material designs on the INDYCAR Experience 2-seat INDYCAR for more than 2 years and will continue to use the platform to accelerate part development. The Lyten sponsored INDYCAR Experience 2-seater will be active throughout this year’s racing season, including this year’s Indy 500.
“Motorsports is a high-growth, technology enabled industry and challenge #1 is pushing the bounds of known materials. There is tremendous demand for that next materials innovation and Lyten has it with its 3D Graphene platform,” said Scott Jasek, CEO of INDYCAR Experience. “I am excited to use our base in Indianapolis to scale up U.S. manufacturing of motorsport parts and bring with it technology focused jobs.”
Lyten is a privately held company with >$425M in equity investment, including investment from Stellantis, FedEx, Honeywell, Nokia, Prime Movers Lab, the European Investment Fund, and Luxembourg Future Fund. Its products include lithium-sulfur batteries, composites, concrete, and sensors, all built on Lyten’s 3D Graphene supermaterials platform.
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