And after 50 cycles, it still had 54 percent capacity retention...
So, your car with a 300 mile range per charge, after 50 days, has a 150 mile range. How about after five years? 20 miles?
Someday they’ll get around to perfecting the nickel-iron battery, aka “Edison battery”. Yes, THAT Edison:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery
This is the first time (this month) that a new promising battery technology has been announced!
Cannot wait for this breakthrough be a reality, just like the 50 or so other battery “breakthroughs” we’ve read about over the past few years! Oh wait, nothing came of those either...
Iron is so plentiful, that it might be an option for mass storage on the electric grid.
The cost to mine a ton of iron? $108.94 The cost to mine a ton of lithium? $2,180.00.
“”These two favorable properties of iron have been overlooked for so many years. And that’s the reason why we don’t have iron ion rechargeable batteries,” Ramaprabhu says.”
No it wasn’t. Not as funding in research and development grants, awards and write offs could be had with Iron. Too common of a material. It had to be something rare to make any real money in the game. The ancient Baghdad battery used iron.
A perfectly modest proposal.
Reading through your recent battery threads, it becomes apparent that you have a large following of some incredible experts from many disciplines.
It is so obvious that you and your followers should form a start-up in battery technology.
Soon it would be the Musk and Red Badger TERA Battery factory.
What could possibly go wrong?
Thanks Red Badger.