Recently, Our Next Energy (ONE), a two-year-old start-up in Michigan, said that they installed a new Gemini prototype battery on the Tesla Model S and tested it, and the test results were very eye-catching, driving 752 mi (miles), that is, 1210 km, which was nearly 90% more than the original 402 mi EPA test data.
ONE founder and CEO Mujib Ijaz said his company aims to start producing battery packs that can boost range by the end of 2023, with an upgraded range that can be double that of most electric vehicles. At the same time, Mujib Ijaz also said: "We want to eliminate nickel and cobalt, but we don't want to give up energy density." Our goal is to reinvent battery chemistry and battery structure. ”
Nickel and cobalt are important components in power batteries, and the role of cobalt is to stabilize the layered structure of the material, but too high a cobalt content will lead to a decrease in the actual capacity; and the role of nickel is to increase energy density. In fact, the company's research direction is completely correct, because the car uncle recently learned that the price of cobalt is rising, which makes the price of power batteries will also rise, as the core component of pure electric vehicles, the price of power batteries means that consumers can buy cars the cost of car rises, if you can eliminate cobalt and nickel, you can use the main production costs to increase endurance, but how to break this technical barrier is still a big problem.
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