THE 1,000-square-meter factory belonging to the Science and Technology Center of Excellence for the Electricity Storage Technology College on the campus of Sebelas Maret University, better known as UNS, in Surakarta, Central Java, can produce 3,000 battery cells per day. However, the production capacity of their lithium battery, called Smart UNS, is intentionally being limited for their own needs and requests from other research agencies outside