What’s the turning point for current BEV technology? It’s often quoted to be a reduction in battery costs to less than US$100 per kWh of storage capacity. Tesla’s latest is not based on break through battery technology. It is simply leveraging improvements in manufacturing to bring down costs.
As an alternative research on improving lithium battery technology has not let up. One more prospect for step change in cost or capacity, and one more possible solution to producing reliable and cost effective higher capacity lithium sulphur batteries.
With NASA on the job the probability just stepped up a few notches.
A solid-state sulphur-selenium battery is cool to the touch and doesn’t catch fire. It has a slimmer profile than lithium-ion batteries and has better energy storage. It can take a beating and still operate, often in less than ideal conditions.
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