battery claims
Battery claims Battery claims April 19th 2025, Nakai university achieve safer high energy density 18650 batteries In a process claimed to be compatible with existing manufacturing, they say they have achieved between 250 - 283wh/kg in a virtually non inflammable lithium metal battery. The batteries also claim a long life cycle. https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1080843 April 18th 2025, General Motors battery production overtakes Tesla GM is going all in on batteries in partnership with LG, though reported costs are still in excess of $100 kwh, I have seen much lower Chinese costs. It really begs the question what does that cost really mean? These are massive investments and as such there's a big difference between the true cost and the so called marginal cost of each cell coming off a production line. There's some talk about the next stage being space and weight saving prismatic batteries, but perhaps a takeaway is that in house production of any reasonably comp...