No one should read this article.No one should care about this discussion.“Solid-state” batteries are often perceived as the holy grail, the future of automotive batteries. But exactly what are they? And why should anyone care if the battery inside the car is solid or liquid?...
On July 25th, 2022, John B. Goodenough, one of the founding fathers of Li-ion battery will turn 100. As the country that invented the Li-ion battery, why are there no American companies among the world’s top EV battery suppliers? How did China rise so quickly?...
Often we hear in the media about some great battery breakthroughs, but then they quickly vanish. The road to commercialization is long and winding. It often takes more than 10 years and hundreds of millions and even billions of dollars, and when one eventually gets...
Oil companies created the batteryIn the late 1960s and early 1970s, the US reached peak oil production putting upward pressure on oil prices, exacerbated by conflicts in the Middle East, an oil crisis began unfolding and prompted the first shift towards energy-efficient technologies to power...
The price of nickel increased from <$20,000 per ton in March 2021 to almost $50,000 per ton in March 2022. In conventional Li-ion batteries, high nickel chemistries are preferred for premium vehicles due to their extended range, while nickel-free chemistries such as LFP are preferred...
