13 years' experience in the sector
Founded in 2012 through the ingenuity of two friends with a passion for electronics, Marco Righi and Alan Pastorelli, who today are the CEO and CTO, Flash Battery is now the most sold lithium battery in Italy, with the fastest charging speed and no maintenance thanks to the proprietary remote monitoring system.
To date, we have installed more than 500 MWh in a range of applications across industrial machines and vehicles, producing more than 700 different models, designing and manufacturing more than 25,000 lithium batteries.
2009
Marco Righi and Alan Pastorelli, now the CEO and CTO of Flash Battery, chanced upon the first lithium batteries from China. There was great potential but the limitations in terms of performance and reliability caused by obsolete electronics soon became clear. Their garage was transformed into a laboratory to develop an innovative battery management system. And the test rig was an electric Citroën Saxo bought from Milan Council for just €2500 which they used to test their new battery management system.
2012
The invention of a revolutionary cell management system, the Flash Balancing System, led to the creation of Kaitek Srl, which was initially focused on producing electronics to control and monitor existing batteries with a view to making them safer and more reliable. But the two partners soon realised that the real added value lay in designing and producing complete battery packs.
2015
The E80 Group, a world leader in the development of intralogistics solutions, took a 40% stake in Flash Battery. This partnership, which had begun in 2013, stemmed from a desire to bring together two areas of expertise: the high performance Flash Battery lithium batteries and the efficient technology of the E80 Group AGVs and LGVs distributed all over the world.
2017
The objective of focusing on the industrial machines market, offering complete lithium batteries, led to the creation in 2017 of the Flash Battery brand. The name was chosen to better communicate the key competitive advantage: charging speed.
2019
The ground was broken on the new Flash Battery site, covering more than 20,000 m², with 1500 m² of offices and 3200 m² of production space, designed in accordance with the highest standards of sustainability and flexibility to meet the needs of an increasingly global company.
In the same year, Flash Battery joined IPCEI, the most strategic project of common European interest for batteries. A pool of 17 companies with the shared objective of creating a value chain for lithium batteries, fully integrated within the European Union.
2020
Flash Battery is no longer just our lithium battery brand, it is also the new company name: the old name Kaitek was replaced with Flash Battery Srl.
2022
More than two years after filing the application in 2019, Flash Battery obtained the Italian industrial patent for the architecture of the proprietary combined active and passive high-power balancing system, the Flash Balancing System, implemented on all Flash Battery lithium batteries.
2023
Flash Battery Inc. is founded, the new Flash Battery subsidiary in the USA, in Houston, Texas, with the aim of providing after-sales support to customers operating in the NAFTA market (North American Free Trade Agreement), strengthening lasting relationships that cross geographical barriers and time zones.
2024
With the aim of continuously improving the quality of our products, we decided to expand the company’s facilities by a further 2200 m², increasing production capacity with the new production and testing lines, large storage areas, and new dedicated offices for the quality area, which accounts for 8% of all of our staff.
2025
With the strategic objective of being even more flexible towards our customers and increasingly independent from the supply chain, we decided to incorporate our expertise and the production of another crucial part of the battery pack: the creation of the module. In 2024, Flash Battery installed an automated line for assembling modules with laser welding. It is currently the prismatic cell production line with the highest capacity in Italy in the industrial sector. Production on the line began officially in January 2025.
Your partner for the electric revolution
Over time, Flash Battery has been able to create a strategic network of international partnerships with powertrain system integrators operating in the main European countries with a focus on energy transition.
Whenever we approach a new project, we aim to find a level of integration between Flash Battery systems and those of our partners in order to deliver efficient and complete powertrain electrification solutions.
Our commitment
We believe in the importance of acting responsibly in every aspect of our work, ensuring the quality of our products and processes, protecting the environment, and acting with integrity towards our partners and suppliers. Through this transparent and responsible approach, we are committed to making a concrete contribution to sustainable future and building trust each day with our stakeholders.
Our team
We are built on a passion for electronics and a belief that investing in research and development has taken us a long way, but our greatest resource are our people who, each day, grow with us with skill, experience, and professionalism.