Batteries are omnipresent in today's hyper-connected, electrically powered society. I guess the battery to power the device you're now watching this video. Have you a low battery status? What if you could travel 1000 kilometers, load 10 minutes and last 1 million miles on a single charge? We have worked with a team of specialists in this film to evaluate via current battery research, the most promising new options based on performance, practicality, and economics. We waited till after Tesla's battery day for this film so that we could take their ads into consideration and capture the greatest picture of the present battery landscape.

1. This Is Why 5 New Battery Technologies That Can Change
Everything
Batteries are omnipresent in today's hyper-connected, electrically powered society. I guess a
battery powers the device you're now watching this video. Have you a low battery status? What
if you could travel 1000 kilometers, load 10 minutes and last 1 million miles on a single charge?
We have worked with a team of specialists in this filmto evaluate via current battery research,
the most promising new options based on performance, practicality and economics. We waited
till after Tesla's battery day for this film so that we could take their ads into consideration and
capture the greatest picture of the present battery landscape.
Today, virtually every electric car uses lithium ion batteries. They're really good, but they're
heavy and have long charging periods to retain the energy. In addition, the energy density,
which is eliminated from the ground, of disintegrating beings surpasses 100 times the energy
density of the most electric cars. 1 kg of fuel contains around 48 megajoules of energy, and only
about 3 megajoules of energy per kg of lithium-ion packs. Lithium batteries also degrade and
lose capacity during their battery life with every charge cycle. Investigators often compare the
amount of complete battery cycles until the battery has just 80% of its original energy.
According to Elon Musk, the main problem restricting the lifespan of electric cars is battery
modules. In 2019, the Tesla 3 drive unit is listed at a distance of 1,000,000 miles (300,000-
500,000 km) and its battery lasts about 1,500 charge cycles.
Although the primary issues seemto be improving energy density and battery life, today's
lithium ion poses environmental and geopolitical challenges. A great deal is exported illegally
and directly supports the violent strife in the area. Furthermore, camps can create
deforestation conditions and a variety of human rights abuses.
We must develop cheaper, longer-durable, ecological and efficient batteries to address the
anticipated demand surge for electric vehicles over the coming decades. In order to ensure that
batteries remain durable in the electric future, political and environmental sustainability issues
must also be dealt with.
After Tesla's highly anticipated September battery day, many concerns were answered. A larger
4680 battery cell table with higher energy densities, improved manufacturing facilities and
lower cost was discovered by the automobile manufacturer Palo Alto.

2. The king-size cells are using a superior design to eliminate the tabs typically found in lithium-ion
batteries, which transfers the energy of the cell to an external source.
This efficient cell design minimizes heat issues and simplifies the manufacturing process. Tesla
has created high-nickel cathodes which eliminate the need for cobalt and improve the
chemistry of the silicone battery by stabilizing the area with an elastic polymer cover which
enables a greater proportion of cheap commodified silicone to be used in cell manufacturing.
All these changes provide an expected effect. The new 4680 cells expect the range to be
increased and power to be increased by 6 times.
Tesla thinks that improved cell design would allow them to achieve a potential production
target of three terawatt-hours a year until 2030 and to enable them to expand the transition to
omnipresent electric vehicles globally.
The world is more battery-oriented than ever after Tesla's battery day, but Tesla isn't the only
show in the city. In the video below, we will explore how everything is changed. Change
everything. Change everything.
For example, you can discover a little zinc-air button in your auditory aid but the automotive
and aerospace industries are also promising to scal up aluminum and lithium-air chemistry. This
battery technique is interesting since lightweight batteries with high energy storage are
possible. Lithium-air batteries have the greatest theoretical specific power, which is 3460 W
h/kg and almost 10 times greater than lithium-ion. Real packs of battery would probably be
closer to 1000 Wh/kg at first, but still 3 to 5 times as many as lithium-ion batteries can reach.
As usual, this technique has no drawbacks. Actually, lithium-air battery electrodes tend to bond
to lithium salts after only a few decades. In the transmission of air to liquid electrolytes, most
researchers utilize porous carbon forms. Feeding pure oxygen from the battery is one approach,
but a potential safety issue in the vehicle set. The Illinois University researchers have shown, by
accelerating the formation of thin lithium peroxide (Li2O2) layer on the electrodes, that

3. molybdenum disulfide nanoflakes may prevent this blockage. Your test battery was operating
on an uncoated equivalent electrode. While a lifetime for a car is not enough, it is a promising
sign. More about nanotechnology later. NASA researchers also investigated aircraft lithium-air
batteries. They believe they should look at the optimal cell of their study. High power is
required. But they also suffer with limited lifetime batteries.
The remedies will lead to electrolyte improvements for them. "At the organic chemistry level,
lithium-oxygen (Li-O2) is primordial for many of the toughest possible reactive oxygen species,"
said researchers in a Chemical and Engineering News interview. Currently, they investigate
molded salt electrolytes, but they aim at researching powerful alternatives in the future to
improve battery life and cycling.
This technology still has a long way to go before you go inside a passenger electric aircraft, but
researchers will be able to draw the attention of the possibility of such high-specific energy,
driven by encouraging advances in recent years.
Nanotechnology has been the motto of the day for many decades, but now it is being used in
every way from nanoelectronics to biotechnology, body armor to slippery clothing.
Nanomaterials use 1-100 particle and structure nanometers, primarily 1 level higher from the
molecular scale. The attraction is that they are unique, because their small size bridges the gap
between the rules of quantum physics and our famous big universe. As we have seen, lithium
electrodes' physical expansion while charging is one of the problems in the construction of the
battery. Purdue University researchers utilized antimony 'nanochain' electrodes last year to
replace these materials with graphite or composite carbon-metal electrodes. With the structure
of the metalloid element, a severe expansion inside the electrode may be tolerated, because
the electrode leaves a web of empty hole. The battery seems to charge fast and has not been
degraded. Carbon nanostructures are promising as well. Graphene is one of the most
interesting graphene.
Graphs consist of a single graphite atomic thickness plate which exhibits extremely intriguing
electrical characteristics. It is a thin semiconductor with high carrier mobility, so that electrons
transfer rapidly, as they are in the battery, in the presence of an electric field. It is also thermo-
driven and has a unique mechanical strength, about 200 times stronger than steel.

4. Great, a Spanish companies in nanotechnology, utilizes a highly potent mix of metal lithium
anode graphic polymer cathodes so long as its electrolyte protects the metal anode properly
and prevents dendrite formation. This battery promises to be lighter and stronger while
charging and unloading faster and more powerful than the current technology. Samsung has
patented technology for 'graphene balls.' These are silicon oxide nanoparticles that appear like
popcorn. These are used as a cathode and as a protective anode layer. Researchers observed
that a full cell's volumetric density is 27.6% greater than its coated counterpart, while the
experimental cell retained almost 80% of its capacity after 500 cycles. In addition, charging is
accelerated and temperature control is improved. Meanwhile, NanoGraf utilizes graphene
sheets to produce carbon-silicon batteries to increase the retained energy by 30%.