![]() ![]() The battery uses lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) for its cathode (positively-charged electrode) and artificial graphite for its anode (negatively-charged electrode). In a paper published in September in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, the authors described a battery that Dahn said “should be able to power an electric vehicle for over one million miles and last at least two decades in grid energy storage. The team was led by Jeff Dahn, a physicist and professor who partnered with Tesla to help the company advance its battery research. Given that there’s no car whose other components can come even close to lasting this long, CATL has already floated the idea that its new batteries could be used successively in multiple cars.ĬATL hasn’t revealed details about the technology behind the extra-long-lasting batteries, but it’s likely they involve some of the measures described last year by a research team at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada. “We have great confidence for the long run.”Įarth’s circumference at the equator is about 24,901 miles that means a 1.2-million-mile battery could power a car for 50 trips around the world before it gave out. “The pandemic may have a lasting effect throughout 2020, but won’t be a major factor next year,” said CATL chairman Zeng Yuqun. Though sales of cars-like everything else-have slumped this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, CATL and its clients are counting on a demand spike in 2021, once there’s less uncertainty in the market and consumers feel more comfortable making big purchases. ![]() ![]() The company says it has new battery technology that lasts up to 1.2 million miles (2 million kilometers) and 16 years-and it’s ready to manufacture the batteries on demand.ĬATL is the world’s biggest manufacturer of electric vehicle batteries, and currently supplies them to a multitude of carmakers including Tesla, BMW, Toyota, Honda, and Volkswagen. The latter figures are about to get a big boost after an announcement this week from Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Range currently runs from around 100 miles on the low end up to 200+ miles in newer models, and most warranties run out after 150,000 miles or 8 years. It’s a small percentage, but represents significant growth for the electric vehicle industry.īefore electric cars become more widespread, they have some technological hurdles left to clear, including the distance drivers can go before having to re-charge the car’s battery (also known as range anxiety!), and the life of the battery itself. As of the end of the year, 2.5 percent of the world’s total cars were electric. Electric cars had their biggest year ever in 2019. ![]()
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