Meet Our Founder
Dane
El Safty
Founder · CEO · Principal Engineer
A Lifetime Spent Understanding Energy.
A Future Dedicated To Changing It.
The Story
Not A Career.
A Calling.
Some people enter the battery industry because it's the next opportunity.
Dane El Safty entered it because he had already spent a lifetime understanding the industry it needed to replace.
Graduating from the University of Sydney with a degree in Chemical Engineering and a major in Petroleum Engineering, Dane began his career at the heart of Australia's energy sector.
His first role was in Research & Development with CSR, developing synthetic fuel technologies — before moving into refining with Caltex Oil as a Refined Products Engineer.
From there his career expanded into petroleum production and refining, working with Applied Chemicals in Brisbane before spending two years in the United States undertaking environmental engineering projects with Chevron Texaco.
Working across oil production, refining and environmental remediation gave Dane a perspective that very few engineers ever experience. He saw both the incredible importance of energy — and the environmental cost of producing it.
Rather than ignore the problem, he chose to dedicate his career to solving it.
Building Better Energy
Every lesson reinforced
the same belief.
Returning to Australia, Dane joined Shell where he specialised in petroleum recycling, developing processes that transformed waste oil back into valuable lubricating products.
He continued pushing sustainability further by engineering waste-to-energy systems capable of converting municipal waste and agricultural crops into synthetic fuels.
Eventually he founded his own environmental engineering company, conducting large-scale energy auditing and efficiency projects for some of Australia's largest fuel and energy companies.
Santos
Ampol
Mobil
BP
Aus Fuel
Chevron
Caltex
Texaco
Companies audited and consulted across Australia
Engineering The Next Generation
Three Generations.
One Mission.
Long before hydrogen became a global conversation, Dane successfully developed Australia's first Hydrogen Fuel Cell Proton Exchange Membrane.
His attention then turned toward advanced battery chemistry.
Generation 1
Lithium NMC
With Graphene anodes
Generation 2
Sodium Layered Oxide
First sodium-ion platform
Generation 3
Sodium Polyanion
Commercial TÜV-certified systems
Not because it was fashionable. Because decades working inside the traditional energy industry convinced him there had to be a better way.
Why Sodium?
For most companies,
sodium-ion is another chemistry.
For Dane, it's a Breakthrough.
—A chemistry built from abundant materials.
—A chemistry designed for safety.
—A chemistry intended to reduce dependence on critical minerals.
—A chemistry that can help countries, businesses and communities build greater energy independence.
"How do we build a better future without repeating the mistakes of the past?"
Career Journey
40 Years Becomes
A Lifetime.
University of Sydney
Chemical Engineering
Petroleum Engineering Major
CSR
Research & Development
Synthetic Fuel Engineering
Caltex Oil
Refined Products Engineer
Downstream petroleum refining
Applied Chemicals
Petroleum Engineering
Oil Production — Brisbane
Chevron Texaco (USA)
Environmental Engineering
Two years across the United States
Waste-to-Energy
Synthetic Fuel Engineering
Municipal waste & agricultural fuel technologies
Shell Australia
Petroleum Recycling Engineer
Transforming waste oil into lubricating products
Founded
Environmental Engineering Company
Santos · Ampol · Mobil · BP · Aus Fuel
Milestone
Australia's First Hydrogen Fuel Cell PEM
Proton Exchange Membrane development
Advanced Batteries
Graphene Lithium NMC Development
Next-generation anode chemistry
Sodium-Ion
Sodium Layered Oxide Development
First sodium-ion generation
PowerCap
Sodium Polyanion Battery Platform
Commercial TÜV-certified systems — Gen 3
Dane El Safty
Founder & Principal Engineer
Experience You Can't Shortcut
PowerCap wasn't built by entrepreneurs chasing a trend.
It was built by an engineer who has spent decades understanding every stage of the world's energy journey — from petroleum, refining and environmental engineering through to hydrogen and advanced battery chemistry.
Every lesson learned over that lifetime has shaped the technology PowerCap delivers today.
Because the future deserves more than another battery. It deserves decades of engineering experience behind every cell.
"Build your energy future with the team that has spent a lifetime engineering it."