MEDFORD, MA (September 04, 2025) – Lithios, a technology company pioneering low-cost, sustainable lithium extraction, announced today the successful completion of over 1,000 hours of continuous operation of its pilot system. This milestone demonstrates the robustness and scalability of Lithios’s patented electrochemical technology, known as Advanced Lithium Extraction (ALE), laying the foundation for the company’s planned field pilot at a customer site in the US this fall.

ALE enables lithium resource owners, refiners, and recyclers to recover lithium from low-grade brines and feedstocks using only electricity and battery-like electrochemical stacks. The result is a lower-cost, higher-performing alternative to conventional methods of hard-rock mining and evaporation ponds, as well as to chemical-based methods of direct lithium extraction, or DLE.

“This milestone is a testament to our team’s hard work and the long-term commercial viability of our technology,” said CEO & co-founder Mo Alkhadra. “Proving our system’s ability to operate continuously for over 1,000 hours with virtually no downtime is a critical derisking milestone and brings us one step closer to providing a scalable solution for the production of low-cost lithium in the US and to meet the industry’s need to expand lithium supplies globally.” Lithios commissioned the pilot facility this spring and began testing with real brine in June. The successful 1,000-hour run confirms the system’s stability and operational integrity, marking a significant step toward commercialization. Learnings and data gathered from this pilot will be leveraged this fall when Lithios begins field validation in the Smackover region.