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This is a really smart idea! Wish I had thought of it..
Siemens and ConnectDER partner to provide home EV charging directly through meter socket
ConnectDER, the developer of a meter collar that integrates between the home’s electric meter socket and the meter itself, will supply Siemens with a proprietary plug-in adapter for electric vehicle chargers. The new device will enable electric vehicle (EV) owners to charge EVs by connecting ch...
There are a lot of similarities with other recent alternative chemistry breakthroughs, such as recent lithium- sulfur batteries. The use of advanced chemistry to generate protective interface layers is a repeating theme. This is indicative of fundamental advances in our understanding of how batteries work and material and chemical sciences.
Early lithium-ion batteries were almost a matter of happening upon working solution, we didn’t control the fundamental building blocks, we just found something that worked well and continued to refine at a macro level.
We all are fatigued by the years of constant “battery breakthrough” announcements and didn’t pay enough attention to all of the advanced imaging and modeling breakthroughs. That’s all paying off now because we aren’t just kids with a chemistry set now, researchers are targeting and building next generation batteries that will revolutionize the next few decades.
2000-2020 was the era of solar and wind becoming affordable, primarily due to government investment (Germany, USA and China primarily), industry growth and the learning curve as a result. That curve hasn’t really stopped, but we are just really stepping into the era of battery disruption. It builds slow but the S curve is really starting to accelerate and most people will simply look back and say “how did that happen?”
PNNL team develops electrolyte for high-voltage sodium-ion battery with extended longevity
Cheap and abundant, sodium is a promising candidate for new battery technology. However, the limited performance of sodium-ion batteries has hindered large-scale application. Now, a research team from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has developed a new el...
The future is looking bright for Lithium Silicone and Lithium Sulfur for very high energy density with recent innovations providing stable long cycle life at high capacities. See the recent Sulfur anode announcements from U of M utilizing aramid nano fiber separators.
The path to 800-1000 wh/kg batteries within the next couple years is looking very possible! 1000wh/kg batteries enable the total transformation of air transportation.
Researchers use self-healing composite polymer binder to boost performance of silicon anodes
Researchers at the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have improved the performance of silicon anodes in LIBs using a self-healing composite polymer binder for the silicon particles. The new binder improves stability and maintains a thin SEI layer. The results of the study are pu...
“ The batteries using cartilage-like bioinspired ANF membranes exhibited a close-to-theoretical-maximum capacity of 1268 mAh g−1, up to 3500+ cycle life, and up to 3C discharge rates. Essential for safety, the high thermal resilience of ANFs enables operation at temperatures up to 80 °C.”
Very impressive- sounds too good to be true. Revolutionary if proves to be viable.
U Mich team develops 1,000-cycle lithium-sulfur battery
A University of Michigan team has shown that a network of aramid nanofibers, recycled from Kevlar, can enable lithium-sulfur batteries to overcome their Achilles heel of cycle life, delivering an estimated 1,000 real-world cycles. A paper on their work is published in Nature Communications. ...
Study says- get rid of those pesky regulations! Car companies will regulate themselves! Wonder who paid for this…
Study: tightening vehicle emissions standards resulted in higher rates of automaker non-compliance; unintended effects of threshold-based regulations
A new study focused on the auto industry finds that tightening emissions standards not only fails to curtail on-road emissions, but actually increases the likelihood of non-compliance by automakers. In a paper published in the journal Production and Operations Management, researchers confirme...
Another (likely) well meaning piece that will quickly get seized on by paid fossil shills to promoting a false narrative that lithium ion batteries are bad for the environment.
Nature editorial: environmental and human costs of Li-ion technology must be addressed quickly
An editorial in the journal Nature calls on policy makers, industry leaders and researchers to mitigate quickly the environmental and human costs of Li-ion batteries. Li-ion batteries currently are the indispensable enabling technology for electric vehicles and the electric grid, the latter due ...
I think most people that live in what we call an “era” have the wrong idea about what future humans will actually look back and think was notable about that time.
Perhaps future humans will look back and define this Era as the beginning of microbial engineering.
New microbial enzyme breaks down lignin for less expensive biofuels, bioproducts
Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have discovered a microbial enzyme that degrades tough-to-break bonds in lignin, a waste product of biorefineries. When inserted into a bioengineered bacterium, the enzyme helps efficiently convert lignin compounds into a common component of pl...
Well that’s crossing the line of viability for mid-range electric aircraft. I’m curious what the cycle life characteristics actually are.
Sion Power reports 17 Ah, 400 Wh/kg Licerion-EV cell
Sion Power, a developer of high-energy, lithium-metal rechargeable batteries, reports achieving 400 Wh/kg, 700 Wh/L in a large format 17 Ah pouch Licerion Electric Vehicle (EV) cell. Licerion-EV is being designed for electric vehicle applications, focusing on high energy density, increased cycl...
I don’t think I want to poke further at your meaning of “demographic” problems. Suffice to say like most things there is likely multiple confounding factors, but l didn’t come up with this theory myself:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2013/01/03/how-lead-caused-americas-violent-crime-epidemic/
U of T researcher suggests decline in dementia may be due to differences in lifetime exposure to lead; role of clean fuel regs
Several studies from the US, Canada, and Europe suggest a promising downward trend in the incidence and prevalence of dementia. However, important risk factors for dementia—such as mid-life obesity and mid-life diabetes—have been increasing rapidly, so the decline in dementia incidence is perple...
I have worked in the past in dementia care and have seen first hand the massive financial and emotional damage it causes.
Once again we find that crony capitalism (that is why we ever had leaded gas in the US in the first place, It never was approved in Europe) and specifically the fossil fuel industry has profited off from the rest of society like a cancer. Sucking profits from the mass of humanity and the globe itself like the most cancerous parasite one can imagine.
BTW there is another theory that the crime spike in the 1970’s in urban environments that disappeared in the 90s was also due to leaded gasoline.
U of T researcher suggests decline in dementia may be due to differences in lifetime exposure to lead; role of clean fuel regs
Several studies from the US, Canada, and Europe suggest a promising downward trend in the incidence and prevalence of dementia. However, important risk factors for dementia—such as mid-life obesity and mid-life diabetes—have been increasing rapidly, so the decline in dementia incidence is perple...
It’s foolish to assume all cobalt, nickle, etc will only come from virgin sources in the future. We don’t throw away the lead in lead-acid batteries.
We only need enough of those materials (with current chemistries) to get pool of available material to support sustainable loop.
Audi and Umicore start closed loop for cobalt and nickel; more than 90% of Co and Ni in e-tron batteries can be recovered
Audi and Umicore have successfully completed the test phase of their strategic research cooperation. (Earlier post.) The result is that more than 90 of the cobalt and nickel in the high-voltage batteries of the Audi e-tron can be recovered. The car manufacturer and the materials technology and ...
I think you are thinking too small. This is one of many recent studies/breakthroughs showing we can use solar energy at high efficiency to produce highly useable / highly valuable carbon material products.
This may be the path towards sustainable atmospheric Co2 regulation through large industrial production of carbon materials. Potentially replacing existing materials such as plastics.
Mega Large carbon based space habitats? Building materials?
Revolutionizing energy storage and production is just a small potential benefit.
Molten carbonate electrolysis can produce a range of carbon nanomaterials, including graphene, from CO2 at high yield
Researchers from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in China and George Washington University in the US report in a new paper in the ACS journal Accounts of Chemical Research that a range of important carbon nanomaterials can be produced at high yield by molten carbonate electrolysis....
Not necessarily the end of the world. Lower cost would enable higher capacity packs for cars and allow the use of hybrid chemistry packs (like the packs from Williams Advanced Engineering that was covered by this website on the 6th of this month). One can imagine for vehicles 100-150kWh packs that can deliver current to operate within normal highway speeds and a small high power pack for acceleration.
Similarly for electric aviation, we are right on the cusp of the required energy by weight for long distance flight. These would be extremely large packs (thousands of kWh’s), which would likely be able to provide enough power for takeoff. But even if not a relatively small high power pack to boost energy output for takeoff would be a pretty trivial addition.
Georgia Tech team develops conversion-type iron-fluoride Li battery cathode with solid polymer electrolyte
Researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a promising new conversion-type cathode and electrolyte system that replaces expensive metals and traditional liquid electrolyte with lower cost transition metal fluorides and a solid polymer electrolyte. A paper on their work is published in the journ...
Potential additional validation of Elon Musk’s strong words regarding Lidar being “a fools errand” at their Investors meeting on the 22nd.
Specifically I thought his comment that if you are going to utilize active photon generation why do so within the visible light spectrum, as you can already solve for vision with passive sensors and use radar band generation to gain super sight ability when visible light spectrums are affected by poor conditions.
Consider that no one has really solved the weather problem with Lidar:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/self-driving-cars-still-can-t-handle-bad-weather
I think the blind confidence that Lidar is the solution to self driving cars is misplaced. It may prove to be useful, but we shall soon find out if it is truly necessary.
Cornell team develops new inexpensive stereo-camera method to detect objects for self-driving cars; pseudo-LiDAR
Cornell researchers have shown that using two inexpensive cameras on either side of a vehicle’s windshield can detect objects with nearly LiDAR’s accuracy and at a fraction of the cost. The LiDAR sensors currently used to detect 3D objects in the paths of autonomous cars are bulky, ugly, expe...
Keep in mind very high capacity, but expensive batteries have a place in many demanding environments such as electric airplanes, aerospace and military applications.
China team devises boron-doped carbon-sulfur aerogel with consecutive core-shell structures for high-capacity, long-life Li-S battery
Researchers at Jiangsu Normal University in China have devised a boron-doped carbon-sulfur (BCS) aerogel with consecutive “core-shell” stuctures as a binder-free cathode for lithium-sulfur batteries. In an open-access paper in the RSC journal Chemical Communications, they report achieving a hig...
I doubt their production estimates, but looking forward to this being a new source of surplus LTO batteries.
Johnson Controls and Toshiba partner to bring leading automakers low-voltage lithium-ion solutions; dual-battery systems
Johnson Controls Power Solutions and Toshiba Infrastructure Systems & Solutions Corporation have partnered to deliver low-voltage lithium-ion solutions to meet automaker demands for improved efficiency, lower costs and less complexity. Under the agreement, Johnson Controls will collaborate wi...
This is phenomenal, probably the most promising li-s development I have seen. Looks like the most commercially viable as well, the whole power is an excellent read.
SJTU team develops self-healing binder for silicon microparticle anodes
Researchers at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) have developed a polymer binder—PAA-P(HEA-co-DMA)—for use with silicon microparticle (SiMP) anodes. Its network structure and special self-healing capability not only provides enough mechanical support but also buffers the strain caused by the...
180 being higher than current lithium-ion’s is incorrect. Perhaps there are some lithium ion batteries that this has a higher energy density than, but this does not compare to the current state of the art which is about double.
However if it possesses existing super capacitor characteristics such as virtually unlimited cycle life and extreme current capacity then it is still very revolutionary.
Handheld railguns here we come.
I could also see a small super capacitor bank in conjunction with a large low power density, but high density lithium pack such as lithium sulfur.
Rolls-Royce partners with Superdielectrics to explore potential of new high energy capacity supercapacitor technology
Rolls-Royce has signed a collaboration agreement with UK-based technology start-up Superdielectrics Ltd to explore the potential of using novel hydrophilic polymers to create next-generation high-energy storage technology. Superdielectrics Ltd is a material research company that has discovered...
I've always admired 3M and the quality of their products. I'm really excited to see that they are involved in next-gen battery chemistry products and am definitely excited about the progress specifically in Silicon and Sulfur battery components of lately.
3M invests in Nanoscale Components to leverage its pre-lithiation process for 3M silicon anodes
3M has made an investment in Nanoscale Components, a company that has developed a novel, low-cost pre-lithiation process. 3M says its investment will expand the adoption of 3M’s unique silicon alloy anode for lithium-ion batteries. (Earlier post.) To take advantage of promising high-capacity an...
It's a terminology issues. They aren't saying they are limiting the total amount of power able to be stored in the batteries but rather limiting the total amount of power drawn from the batteries in a time period during a race and also the total amount recoverable from regen.
http://arstechnica.com/cars/2014/06/high-tech-hybrids-are-2014s-hottest-race-cars/
Li-ion cell provider XALT Energy partners with Williams Advanced Engineering
Williams Advanced Engineering, the engineering services and technology business of the Williams Group, has entered a partnership agreement with XALT Energy, supplier of the lithium-ion cells for the Williams’ battery in the Formula E racing series. This new partnership will also see the two com...
Maybe NASA can get some real product here.
I swear If we ran the space race and the nuclear program like we have battery development we would still be hearing about labs announcing promising results on a rocket that may be able to get us to the moon in 3-5 years!
"University of take-your-money United has announced their research team under Professor P. Admywallet has designed a nuclear warhead they believe will yield 10-20 MT of explosive power. "With three to five more years of grad students paying me to do my work, we'll be ready to announce our next breakthrough!" Said Professor P. "This project is completely novel, unlike the other research team at Northern B.S.U which produced a remarkably similar result using similar materials but they used an ball shaped explosive charge whereas we used a oval shape." More press releases are expected soon!
NASA selects proposals for advanced energy storage systems for future space missions: silicon-anode Li-ion and Li-S
NASA has selected four proposals for advanced Li-ion and Li-sulfur energy storage technologies that may be used to power the agency’s future space missions. Development of these new energy storage devices will help enable NASA’s future robotic and human-exploration missions and aligns with co...
The fact that at c/40 the capacity was still sloping up at 1,000 cycles is incredible. They must have switched the same cell from c/20 to c/10 and c/2 so we don't get to see what that does to capacity fade. Obviously internal losses and cell heating is significant, to the point of c/2 or 1c causing obvious cell damage. This doesn't seem to be an intrinsically high power chemistry but costs and total cycle life could be the real test for certain applications.
High capacity, long-life porous nano-silicon Li-ion anode material from beach sand
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have synthesized a porous nano-silicon material from beach sand (SiO2) via a highly scalable heat scavenger-assisted magnesiothermic—i.e., using a combination of heat and magnesium—reduction. The addition of N...
Lad,
Thanks for posting that PDF, lots of great info in there.
Everyone else, the reason there aren't specific capacity numbers (which everyone loves to start dreaming of the possibilities with) is this is an actual material science advance. Basically they are saying utilizing Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP) instead of Lithium foil or other forms of Lithium in batteries enhances many aspects of existing chemistry's (such as LiCoO2) and enables/improves some advances chemistry's such as Si Composites. Read the PDF and look at some of the examples, this is a hard release with info from dozens of partner labs.
The reality is there are hundred of battery labs all over the world analyzing battery materials at a molecular level utilizing computing tools and imaging technologies that never existed before the last few decades. If you really think we aren't going to see fundamentally different battery capabilities within the next 5-10 years then prepare to be surprised. You are making a bet against market forces and manufacturing improvements that rarely ever pays off.
Oh and Gor.. Go away troll.
New binder/solvent system from Argonne, FMC facilitates use of stabilized Li metal powder in Li-ion electrodes; lower cost, higher energy density
As part of a four-year DOE-funded project, researchers at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory, working with FMC Corporation, have developed a novel polymer binder and solvent system facilitating the use of FMC’s unique Stabilized Lithium Metal Powder (SLMP) as a performanc...
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