With the increasing influence of new energy vehicles in the global automobile market, especially the rapid growth of Tesla's market value, China relies on new energy vehicles to break the monopoly of Europe and the United States, and India also intends to intervene, and a company in India claims to have developed an aluminum battery with a range of 1200 kilometers, trying to rely on new battery technology to take a share of the new energy vehicle industry.
The Indian company claims to have developed an aluminum battery that has actually been around for nearly two years, but this battery technology has been questioned.
As we all know, lithium is far more active than aluminum, and it is precisely because of this that lithium batteries can continue to improve fast charging technology, and Tesla, the leader of electric vehicles, is currently only able to charge 250 kilometers in 15 minutes, while the Indian company claims that its aluminum batteries can achieve 1200 kilometers in 12 minutes.
The second is that the density of aluminum far exceeds lithium, the density of aluminum is 2.7 grams per square centimeter, the density of lithium is 0.534 grams per square centimeter, the density of aluminum is five times that of lithium, the current energy density of lithium-ion batteries is 150-300Wh/Kg, even so automobile companies are still trying to improve the energy density of lithium-ion batteries to further reduce the space and weight of lithium-ion batteries.
The global power battery technology is mainly in the hands of China, South Korea and Japan, especially China is the world's largest power battery producer, the world's top ten power battery companies are 6 Chinese enterprises, South Korea has three, Japan has one.
China, Japan and South Korea have deep battery technology accumulation and have also tried to develop aluminum batteries, but due to the excessive density of aluminum and its own inactivity, they finally gave up, and China's battery companies chose to develop in the direction of solid-state batteries and sodium-ion batteries.
Japan and South Korea are working hard to develop solid-state battery technology, and Japan also announced earlier that it has made a breakthrough in solid-state battery technology, and it is expected that solid-state batteries will be mass-produced as soon as 2026.
China, Japan and South Korea, which have the accumulation of power battery technology, have not chosen aluminum batteries, but India has developed aluminum batteries in its own way, which really makes people doubt whether India has such a strong technology.
India is lagging behind in the new energy vehicle industry due to a variety of factors. First of all, India's own infrastructure is insufficient, India's power supply network is extremely imperfect, in some rural areas have not been electrified, there is no perfect power supply network, India naturally can not develop the new energy vehicle industry.
The second is the lack of industrial chain in India, simpler mobile phone batteries, so far India does not have its own local enterprises, in order to supply batteries for iPhones produced in India, Apple has to urge battery companies in Taiwan and Chinese mainland to set up factories in India, so it is difficult to imagine that India can have a real breakthrough in developing power batteries from scratch.
Again, made in India has made a lot of jokes over the years, the most well-known of which is the cow chip, and later the Indian report pointed out that cow is used to package the chip, saying that the cow chip can resist disease in the mobile phone, which has become a joke.
In the past two years, India has also tried to develop the chip industry, the Indian consortium Vedanta plans to cooperate with Foxconn to build a 28-nanometer chip factory, but the technology needs to be licensed from an Israeli company, and finally Intel acquired the Israeli company, which led to Foxconn's withdrawal from the project.
The author believes that India's so-called research and development of aluminum batteries may still be a farce, just to attract the attention of the world, it is difficult to have a major breakthrough in the research and development of power battery technology, India really wants to make a breakthrough in advanced technology, or to establish a strong industrial base, without a strong enough industrial system, it is difficult to have a breakthrough in advanced technology.