Electrovaya announced that on August 24, 2026, it began a Factory Acceptance Test (FAT) of automated cell-assembly and Formation equipment for its Jamestown, New York cell plant, to be followed after completion in early October by shipping and a Site Acceptance Test (SAT). This article reinterprets that FAT not as “equipment inspection” but as a sizing verification that absorbs, through the number of Formation channels, the takt-time mismatch between cell assembly — which moves at a second-by-second cadence — and Formation — which holds cells for hours at a time. Under an assumed scenario (0.5 GWh annual output, 185 Wh cells, 6,600 h/yr of operation, 72 h Formation dwell time),…