Posted on 04/10/2022 3:31:57 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Nissan is working with NASA on a new type of battery for electric vehicles that promises to charge quicker and be lighter yet safe, the Japanese automaker said Friday.
The all-solid-state battery will replace the lithium-ion battery now in use for a 2028 product launch and a pilot plant launch in 2024, according to Nissan.
The all-solid-state battery is stable enough to be used in pacemakers. When finished, it will be about half the size of the current battery and fully charge in 15 minutes, instead of a few hours.
The collaboration with the U.S. space program, as well as the University of California San Diego, involves the testing of various materials, Corporate Vice President Kazuhiro Doi told reporters.
"Both NASA and Nissan need the same kind of battery," he said.
Nissan and NASA are using what's called the "original material informatics platform," a computerized database, to test various combinations to see what works best among hundreds of thousands of materials, Doi said.
The goal is to avoid the use of expensive materials like rare metals, which are needed for lithium-ion batteries.
Nissan is also counting on its historical experience with the Leaf electric car, which first hit the market in 2010 and has sold more than half a million units globally, although the battery technology is different, Doi and other company officials said.
The Leaf battery has not had any major accidents on roads, and some parts of the technology remain common, such as the lamination of the battery cell, they said.
Other automakers, including Japanese rival Toyota Motor Corp., as well as Volkswagen of Germany and U.S. automakers Ford Motor Co. and General Motors Co., are working on all-solid-state batteries.
Recently, General Motors and Japanese automaker Honda Motor Co. said they were working together on next-generation electric vehicles.
But Nissan Executive Vice President Kunio Nakaguro said Nissan is extremely competitive and that the battery it is developing promises to be "a game-changer."
Interest in electric vehicles is growing because of concerns about the use of fossil fuels contributing to climate change and pollution. Players in the EV sector, such as Tesla and Waymo, are also growing and there is increased competition.
Nissan Motor Co., based in Yokohama, has been eager to put behind it the scandal of its former superstar executive Carlos Ghosn. He was arrested in 2018 on various financial misconduct charges in Japan, but jumped bail in late 2019 and now lives in Lebanon, a nation of his ancestry that has no extradition treaty with Japan. He says he is innocent.
Ghosn, who led Nissan for two decades, spearheaded the electric vehicle drive at the company, which also makes the March subcompact and Infiniti luxury models.
Nobody can drive or buy a concept vehicle. I’ll wait.
Thanks for the history lesson.
Here in New Mexico I get to watch the clear coat peel up, flat around and fly off like potato chips. 2006 Frontier.
Well that’s the trade-off.
Salt corrosion up north.
Sun burn-off paint/interior down south.
Back off a rural road near me there is a ‘58 Desoto parked in a field with no visible rust and most of the original paint.
You also don’t have to worry about your guns rusting.
Mercedes is advertising an electric that ges 600+ miles per charge. They don’t say how long it takes to recharge though
Now if I could only figure out the transducer for the teleporter, I could swap out the atomic power.
I got around the same from the OEM battery for my 2003 Corolla. I think it was Panasonic as well.
Right up to the Chinese stealing the technology and mass producing.
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Good. Patents shouldn’t exist.
Patents shouldn’t exist? Are you serious?
How about money changing? Is that a better descriptor?
Now we’re talking. Next challenge: make car with reasonable options for less than $30K.
Yeah, any minute now.
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Chinese need not steal as long as their American democrap minions keep stealing elections.
“Mercedes is advertising an electric that ges 600+ miles per charge.”
Mercedes makes the “Smart Car”, so beware!
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Future News:
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FLASH : Grounding system on auto charging station fails and electocutes driver and 3 passengers. The corpses were discovered in the 120 degree heat after two days in the Arizona Destert Town.
Shouldn’t NASA be working with US companies, the ones whose taxes allow them to exist?
Well, at least it wasn’t “bombshell”. ;-)
By the time this actually gets done, it will all be over.
I’ll admit it is not the classic joke that GM is telling with theri TV ads. GM is showing a host of rich and attractive women with a Cadillac that doesn’t exist.
They are whistling past the grave yard
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