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Solid Power is developing solid-state batteries, using sulphide electrolytes. Ambitious goals include >500 miles of EV range (50-100% more than today’s lithium ion batteries), 2x higher life-spans and costs as…
This 14-page note offers five rules of thumb to maximize the longevity of lithium-ion batteries, in grid-scale storage and electric vehicles. The data suggest hidden upside in the demand for…
…going to think about lithium, and then maybe secondarily graphite or nickel. Fluorinated polymers are lower on the bill of materials. Yet they are crucial to producing solar panels (page…
Over the past decade, costs have deflated by 85% for lithium ion batteries, 75% for solar and 25% for onshore wind. Now new energies costs are entering a new era….
…What implications for solar, gas, lithium batteries and industrial incumbents? $599.00 – Purchase Checkout Added to cart Solar is the new energy source that excites us most, generating electricity from semiconductors, capable…
Batteries, electrolysers and cleaner metals/materials value chains all hinge on electrochemistry. Hence this 19-page overview of electrochemistry explains the energy economics from first principles. The physics are constructive for lithium…
…of charge-discharge cycles (chart below). But generally, CAES costs 30% more than a lithium ion battery storage system. Key reasons are the lower efficiency (discussed above) and 5-10x higher maintenance…
…the future of the energy transition, there may be challenges to displacing jet fuel, which has an energy density of 12,000 Wh/kg. A large plane powered by a lithium ion…
…hard to decarbonize due to limits on the energy density of lithium ion batteries and myriad issues with hydrogen-based fuels. Non-OECD oil demand has risen from 35Mbpd in 2005 to…
…here). The other c20% of the world’s hydrogen is spread across an amazingly broad set of use cases: purifying many of the metals used in lithium ion batteries; hydrogenating fats to…