London-listed and US-focused lithium exploration and development company Bradda Head Lithium has entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with San Diego-based advanced battery materials developer Tyfast Energy Corp to explore a domestic US lithium supply pathway for Tyfast's proprietary lithium vanadium oxide (LVO) anode material.

The collaboration is aimed at leveraging Bradda Head's lithium assets in Arizona and Nevada with Tyfast's downstream battery material qualification process, advancing a 'Made-in-USA' supply chain for high-performance batteries.

The collaboration will evaluate battery-grade lithium sourced entirely from US-based projects for integration into Tyfast's LVO anode platform, supporting heavy-duty vehicle electrification across construction, mining, trucking and defence.

This also provides Bradda Head with a potential downstream pathway for its US lithium assets, supporting its strategy to advance toward production and participate in the domestic battery supply chain.

The companies state in a joint announcement that the heavy-duty vehicle sector faces increasing pressure to electrify, but that adoption has been constrained by battery technology limitations, including inadequate charging speed, limited cycle life and poor cold-climate performance.

Simultaneously, battery manufacturers and original-equipment manufacturers are under growing scrutiny around the geographic origin of critical materials.

Addressing both the performance challenges and the need for a secure, domestic supply chain will be key to enabling broader adoption. The MoU between Bradda Head and Tyfast represents an initial step toward aligning advanced battery technology with a domestic critical minerals supply chain.

Bradda Head holds 100%-owned projects spanning three fundamentally different types of lithium deposit – sedimentary clay, hard-rock and brine – each producing lithium through different processes. This gives the company multiple routes to produce battery-grade material and reduces its dependence on any single project or technology path.

At the company's Basin project, in Arizona, an independent resource estimate has confirmed over 2.8-million tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent, while the San Domingo hard-rock project, with over 100 drill holes completed, is advancing toward its own resource estimate.

A third project, Whistlejacket, is being developed in partnership with Kennecott, one of the world's most experienced mining companies.

"We have always believed that the proximity of our US projects to end-users is our greatest competitive advantage. This agreement further builds on our credentials and strategy of developing US lithium for the US market.

"This collaboration represents a potential pathway to connect our US lithium resources to advanced battery applications, positioning Bradda Head at the forefront of the US lithium industry, with a view to working closely with the appropriate regulatory authorities in developing their lithium strategy to maximising future potential US production for the US markets," comments Bradda Head chairperson Ian Stalker.

"Lithium is the other half of the equation for our LVO anode. We have been building a vanadium supply chain from the ground up with US and Canadian partners and it is the right time to do the same for lithium.

"Bradda Head has a differentiated portfolio of US lithium assets across deposit types that directly complements what we need as we scale. This MoU is about establishing the building blocks of a fully domestic, high-performance battery supply chain," adds Tyfast CEO GJ la O'.