Green Car Congress
APRIL 18, 2019
Illustration of the process to restore lithium ions to degraded NMC cathodes using eutectic molten salts at ambient pressure. Due to the rapid growth of electric vehicle markets, the worldwide manufacturing capacity of lithium-ion batteries is expected to reach hundreds of gigawatt hours per year in the next five years.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 2, 2023
The new battery design could help ease integration of renewable energy into the electrical grid at lower cost, using Earth-abundant metals, according to a study just published in Energy Storage Materials. The new sodium-based molten salt battery uses two distinct reactions.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 4, 2011
The Nikkei reports that Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd., in partnership with Kyoto University, has developed a lower temperature molten-salt rechargeable battery that promises to cost only about 10% as much as lithium ion batteries. The ZEBRA battery is an example of a molten salt battery.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 6, 2022
The valuable mineral for electric vehicle (EV) batteries is now considered a critical raw material. UP Catalyst uses a molten salt carbon capture and electrochemical transformation (MSCC-ET) method to reprocess CO 2 from heavy industry flue gases into carbon nanomaterials and graphite. kg CO 2 eq/kg and 13.8
Green Car Congress
MARCH 1, 2022
The JD/CA will help advance the development of Li-Metal’s high-performance low-cost lithium metal anode technologies and Blue Solutions’ solid-state batteries to be used in passenger electric vehicles (EVs). The molten salt electrolysis of the chloride mixture is both capital- and energy-intensive, and can be environmentally damaging.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 25, 2022
An international team of researchers led by Quanguan Pang at Peking University and Donald Sadoway at MIT reports a bidirectional, rapidly charging aluminum–chalcogen battery operating with a molten-salt electrolyte composed of NaCl–KCl–AlCl 3.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 11, 2020
The PNNL researchers have developed a process to grow high-performance crystals in molten salts—sodium chloride, common table salt—at high temperature. volts—minimizes damage while still within the normal range of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
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