Rajshekar Gupta
Analyst · Oppenheimer
Thank you, John, and good evening, everyone. It is a pleasure to speak with you today as we review our second quarter fiscal 2026 results. Despite some supply chain disruptions stemming from recent geopolitical developments, we continued steady progress during the quarter across our financial, technology and strategic business objectives. While our material handling products continue to form the foundation of our revenue base, the quarter also marks the commencement of commercial deliveries of our latest battery systems for robotic applications in addition to shipments to 2 defense contractors. These developments reflect the continued expansion of our technology platform into new and strategically important verticals. We remain highly focused on new product development, continued advancement of our core battery technologies and the ramp-up of our Jamestown manufacturing facility, all of which we believe will play a central role in supporting the company's long-term growth and success. During the quarter, we also commenced shipments of our latest high-voltage battery systems. We expect high-voltage vehicle platforms to scale over the coming years and become a meaningful contributor to revenues beginning in fiscal 2027. In the airport ground support equipment sector, testing activities have continued to progress well, and our trial battery systems are now operating commercially at multiple airports. However, recent disruptions within the airline industry and broader macroeconomic uncertainty may impact the timing of capital spending decisions and near-term order flow within this sector. Turning to product and technology development. We continue to advance our technology and product portfolio, spanning advanced ceramic separator technologies through to next-generation software solutions. Our most significant development initiative is focused on energy storage products, which we expect will become a showcase of the company's integrated battery system, cell and software capabilities, delivering differentiated solutions for mission-critical energy storage applications. Electrovaya is developing products and technologies that fundamentally build upon our core strengths in advanced ceramic separators, cell and system safety, longevity, cycle life and high-performance battery operations. I'm particularly excited about our push into energy storage. This is a sector that I personally led at Electrovaya more than a decade ago before the market became increasingly commoditized. Today, however, with the rapid growth in demand for mission-critical energy infrastructure, we believe that the market environment has fundamentally changed and presents a significant opportunity for differentiated technology solutions. We believe our energy storage platforms can deliver an outsized impact through a combination of high power density, long cycle life and industry-leading safety. Our objective is to enable customers to achieve more with a smaller and more efficient battery solution, improving both operational performance and overall economics. In addition, given the exceptional safety and field performance record of our Infinity technology, we believe mission-critical applications will represent a key target market for the company. We've already demonstrated the strength of this approach within the material handling sector, where we successfully introduced a premium battery solution to some of the world's largest companies. We believe a similar strategy can be applied to energy storage infrastructure markets. Within our energy storage product portfolio, which is in development, we are advancing both AC-coupled 1,500-volt systems and DC-coupled 800-volt system architectures. These platforms are being engineered to meet UL 9540A certification standards while supporting materially higher power densities than conventional lithium-ion energy storage systems. Fundamentally, our goal is to deliver greater performance and capability with a smaller overall battery footprint. I'm also encouraged by the continued progress of our next-generation ceramic separator development program, which is expected to deliver further improvements in battery performance and capability. To support future commercialization, we are planning scaled manufacturing expansion at one of our Ontario facilities with production targeted to commence in 2027. In parallel, our solid-state battery development efforts have accelerated following the installation of upgraded infrastructure and a new dry room earlier this year. As I mentioned previously, we are also advancing rapidly towards the development of an ultra-fast charging lithium-ion cell and accompanying battery systems. This technology integrates a next-generation niobium oxide anode with the company's Infinity Platform to deliver enhanced safety, long cycle life and charging times of approximately 5 minutes. In-house testing of prototype cells is ongoing and has successfully demonstrated the targeted high rate charging capabilities alongside excellent cycle life performance. We've also already produced prototype battery modules utilizing these cells and are actively designing complete battery systems targeting applications such as robotics, data center infrastructure support and other high-power industrial markets. We are currently targeting customer sampling this year with commercial availability expected in 2027. Finally, regarding our Jamestown expansion. I was at the facility yesterday, in fact, and I'm very pleased with the significant progress being made in site preparation and infrastructure development. Construction of the dry rooms is underway. Building floors have been reinforced to support advanced manufacturing equipment and a number of additional facility upgrades are progressing on schedule. Most importantly, we continue to strengthen the leadership and technical expertise required to successfully scale the operation. Our cell manufacturing lead for Jamestown, Ok-soo Han, recently joined the company and has already relocated to the region. Ok-soo has been based in Michigan since 2015 and previously led new cell product introduction initiatives at LG Energy Solutions. In addition, we have continued to add other key personnel, including process engineers and manufacturing specialists with experience across several major North American battery operations. Along with our ongoing capital equipment investments at the site, experienced talent will be critical to the successful execution of our long-term manufacturing strategy. The Jamestown expansion remains a core component of our plans to increase production capacity and support domestic manufacturing, particularly for our future energy storage and defense-related product lines. With that, I will now turn the call back over to John for a detailed review of our financial results.