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NIMS researchers report 500 Wh/kg+ Li-air battery

Green Car Congress

Researchers at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) and the NIMS-SoftBank Advanced Technologies Development Center have developed a lithium-air battery with an energy density of more than 500 Wh/kg—significantly higher than currently lithium ion batteries.

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Will the world run out of lithium?

Drive Electric

Examples of this development include solid-state batteries , lithium sulphur and lithium-air batteries. In fact, most significant makers of car lithium batteries have set targets to eliminate cobalt (a much more scarce and problematic battery metal) from their chemistry.

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