Cobalt-free batteries could power cars of the future | MIT News ...
WEBJan 18, 2024 · MIT researchers have now designed a battery material that could offer a more sustainable way to power electric cars. The new lithium-ion battery includes a cathode based on organic materials, instead of cobalt or nickel (another metal often used in lithium-ion batteries).
Simplifying the production of lithium-ion batteries | MIT News ...
WEBOct 25, 2022 · Now the MIT spinout 24M Technologies has simplified lithium-ion battery production with a new design that requires fewer materials and fewer steps to manufacture each cell. The company says the design, which it calls “SemiSolid” for its use of gooey electrodes, reduces production costs by up to 40 percent.
What’s next for batteries in 2023 | MIT Technology Review
WEBJan 4, 2023 · Lithium-ion batteries keep getting better and cheaper, but researchers are tweaking the technology further to eke out greater performance and lower costs. Some of the motivation comes from...
Solid state battery design charges in minutes, lasts for thousands …
WEBJan 8, 2024 · Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a new lithium metal battery that can be charged and discharged at least 6,000 times — more than any other pouch battery cell — and can be recharged in a matter of minutes.
The new car batteries that could power the electric vehicle
WEBFeb 7, 2024 · Chinese manufacturers have announced budget cars for 2024 featuring batteries based not on the lithium that powers today’s best electric vehicles (EVs), but on cheap sodium — one of the most...
Engineers solve a mystery on the path to smaller, lighter batteries ...
WEBNov 18, 2022 · A discovery by MIT researchers could finally unlock the door to the design of a new kind of rechargeable lithium battery that is more lightweight, compact, and safe than current versions, and that has been pursued by labs around the world for years.
New material found by AI could reduce lithium use in batteries - BBC
WEBJan 9, 2024 · A brand new substance, which could reduce lithium use in batteries, has been discovered using artificial intelligence (AI) and supercomputing. The findings were made by Microsoft and the...
Prospects for lithium-ion batteries and beyond—a 2030 vision
WEBDec 8, 2020 · Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), while first commercially developed for portable electronics are now ubiquitous in daily life, in increasingly diverse applications including electric cars, power...
New study could help unlock 'game-changing' batteries for …
WEBJun 7, 2023 · Researchers have revealed the mechanisms that cause lithium metal solid-state batteries to fail. The new insights could help overcome the technical issues with solid-state batteries,...
Manganese cathodes could boost lithium-ion batteries - Phys.org
WEB1 day ago · Rechargeable lithium-ion batteries are growing in adoption, used in devices like smartphones and laptops, electric vehicles, and energy storage systems. But supplies of nickel and cobalt commonly ...
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