Aluminium-ion battery that can provide up to three times the range on EVs and charge 60 times faster. This means an 8-hour charging cycle could be reduced to 8 minutes when compared to the current generation of lithium-ion batteries.
It's a direct replacement that charges so fast it's basically a supercapacitor. Lithium-ion cells can't do more than 1.5-2 amps or you can blow up the battery, but this technology has no theoretical limit. It charges an iPhone coin cell in less than 10 seconds.
Aluminium-ion batteries are also safer as there is no upper ampere limit to cause spontaneous combustion.
So far there are no temperature problems. Twenty per cent of a lithium-ion battery pack (in a vehicle) is to do with cooling them. There is a very high chance that we won't need that cooling or heating at all. Aluminium-ion batteries does not overheat and it nicely operates below zero so far in testing.
Aluminium-ion batteries will be lighter as well as they don't need extreme cooling mechanisms. They don't need circuits for cooling or heating, which currently accounts for about 80kg in a 100kWh pack.
This battery tech could be reverse engineered to work with existing lithium-ion battery housings. This means the batteries can easily fit on current generation EV platforms like MEB by the Volkswagen group.
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These all sound wonderful and I very much hope they work out.
There are so many battery break throughs happening, why have we not seen them come to fruition? I refer to them as the "battery break through du jour" There have been so many of these battery break throughs, I now ignore them.
Could they really be just media hype?