Recently, the Tesla factory in Berlin, Germany, began operations, and brand founder and CEO Elon Musk also went to Germany to personally participate in this important moment. He also put forward many insights into the future of electric vehicles, and in the field of batteries, he said that Tesla will make this technology evolve again, and batteries are currently using lithium iron phosphate as the first choice. But now Tesla intends to use manganese-based chemicals in the cathode, which is understood to make the cost a little lower, and the dependence on nickel metal will be reduced, on the other hand, it may also increase the energy density synchronously, so that the volume of the battery can be reduced.
In fact, Elon Musk has always believed that the battery will have the possibility of an instantaneous breakthrough, and from the past to the present battery technology seems to be only slowly developing, the battery form has never been able to shake the electric vehicle market overnight changes, and now many manufacturers are studying solid-state batteries, this battery technology is also regarded as a breakthrough, but still has not been used in mass production electric vehicles. Now Tesla is focusing part of its energy on new metal elements, they will use manganese as a cathode material, the future battery cathode will be 2/3 of nickel and 1/3 of manganese composition, which means that the same amount of nickel can be used to produce more batteries.
In the past, there are actually other manufacturers proposed the use of manganese as a battery cathode method, many studies have also shown that manganese as a cathode will improve energy density, another point is to reduce manufacturing costs, of course, as an electric vehicle giant Tesla is also familiar with this feature, I believe they have achieved results in related battery technology, otherwise they will not publicly say that such technology will be used as a raw material for future batteries. In addition to the use of manganese as a battery cathode, Tesla also continues to make efforts in the research of graphene batteries, and what kind of battery will be used as the mainstream in the future of electric vehicles is not known, at least the current lithium battery system is a relatively stable choice.