lithium-ion batteries

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In the early 20th century Britain’s Royal Navy converted its ships to run on oil instead of coal. But whereas coal could be produced at home, oil had to be imported. That caused jitters: what if those imports were one day cut off? Winston Churchill, who was in charge of the navy at the time, argued that the best defence was a diversity of supply. As he told a fretful Parliament: “Safety and certainty in oil lie in variety and variety alone." These days, politicians…

But lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have downsides. Lithium is scarce, for one. And the best Li-ion batteries, those with layered-oxide cathodes, also require cobalt and nickel. These metals are scarce, too—and cobalt is also problematic because a lot of it is mined in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where working conditions leave much to be desired. A second sort of Li-ion battery, a so-called polyanionic design that uses lithium iron phosphate (LFP), does not need nickel or cobalt. But such batteries cannot…

And at the same time, energy density is ticking up, a trend I’m personally grateful for because I often forget to charge my phone for days at a time, and it typically works out much better when that happens now than it did a few years ago.  Branching out But just because lithium-ion dominates the battery world today doesn’t mean it’ll squash the competition forever.  I’ve written about the growing number of options in the battery industry before, mostly in the context of stationary storage on the electrical grid. This…

The company’s batteries will not be fully indigenous this year. However, it is working on having its own anode chemistry and working with key players in China for the cathode chemistry.New Delhi: While the ICE vehicles are transitioning to many new technologies like flex fuels, ethanol, fuel cell EV, hydrogen ICE, and electric vehicles, industry experts consider 2023 as a pivotal year for energy transition and its storage. This year, India is also expected to…

Solar and wind power are the glamorous twins of the clean-electricity revolution. It is thrilling to see a field of glistening panels absorbing the sun’s energy or a vast turbine twirling above…

Plug these guys into your Tesla.Photo: Brendon Thorne (Getty Images)The world could create more sustainable batteries with an unusual source: crustaceans. In a paper published this week in the journal Matter, researchers saythey have made a biodegradable battery with a substance found in crab and lobster shells.A crucial part of the way that batteries work is an electrolyte substance that sits between the two electric terminals at either end, which helps ions move back and forth between the positively and negatively…

The Aditya Birla Group company Hindalco Industries, which produces aluminium, has partnered with Israeli battery producer Phinergy and IOP, a joint venture between Indian Oil Corporation and Phinergy, to create aluminium-air batteries for electric vehicles (EVs). According to a statement released by Hindalco, Phinergy and IOP will collaborate exclusively with the Aditya Birla Group company in India on research and development, pilot production, and recycling of aluminium once it has been used in aluminium-air batteries.…

Researchers have developed new lithium-ion batteries that perform well at both freezing cold and scorching hot temperatures, while packing a lot of energy. The batteries, described in the journal PNAS, could allow electric vehicles in cold climates to travel farther on a single charge. They could also reduce the need for cooling systems to keep the vehicles' battery packs from overheating in hot climates. The researchers at the University of California (UC) San Diego in the US developed an electrolyte that is not only…

This solid-state battery technology is still years away from going commercial—Solid Power plans to ramp up to producing enough material for 800,000 cars annually by 2028—but if it proves practical, the batteries could increase the performance of electric vehicles significantly. Solid Power won’t be making and selling full batteries in the future, however. Instead, it will provide the solid electrolyte material to other battery makers, says CEO Doug Campbell. The electrolyte shuttles charge around inside a battery as…