Posted on 06/17/2024 1:09:37 PM PDT by Red Badger
While Chinese manufacturers have burst out in front of the pack with semi-solid-state battery achievements, other manufacturers around the world are working hard to get their own cells developed and validated. Based in Massachusetts, Factorial Energy has been working on its lithium-metal quasi-solid-state technology for over a decade, attracting backing and collaboration from major automakers like Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz and Hyundai. It's aiming for a long-range, energy-dense battery that costs the equivalent of lithium-ion units and rolls off the same production lines. This month, it sent out its first round of B-samples to Mercedes-Benz for further testing and development.
Factorial first revealed its 100-Ah solid-state cell at CES 2023 in collaboration with Stellantis, advancing on from the smaller cells it had shown previously. It began shipping the first 100-Ah A-samples to global automotive partners in October of last year and has now delivered over 1,000 A-sample cells to Mercedes-Benz alone.
Now Factorial has announced shipment of the first 106-Ah B-sample cells to Mercedes, calling it the world's first announced shipment of B-sample solid-state battery cells to a global automotive OEM. The "announced" qualifier in that particular "world first" leaves open that other B-sample cells have been shipped but not announced, but either way, the company is making steady progress and moving into the next stage of testing.
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“But I have to admit I sure do like lithium-ion batteries in my gadgets, tools, snow blower, leaf blower, wife’s e-bike, etc”
Just one lithium battery ignition / explosion will make you unlike them.
” It also had the ancillary benefit of using the huge amount of excess generating capacity at night when people are asleep so you got better asset utilization of power plants. “
FP&L offers a plan where night charging is free.
“Just one lithium battery ignition / explosion will make you unlike them.”
I take it you don’t use a cellphone or laptop ...
“Just one lithium battery ignition / explosion will make you unlike them.”
Billions of tools are in use. How many explosions?
batteries (of any type) are far less explosive than gasoline.
There will always be enough liberal leftist wackos to burn to turn turbines for power for generations to come. Probably will NEVER run out of them. Why hasn’t anyone thought of that?
One of the most obvious, consistent science truth ignored by climate ‘scientists’.
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