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EV BATTERY INNOVATION SPELLS THE END FOR FOSSIL FUEL AND FUEL CELLS

Mar 8, 2023 

New reports about EV battery innovation and the resulting increase in range is the final nail in the internal combustion engine coffin.

The typical lithium-ion battery used in the car industry today stores about 200 watt-hours per kilo (Wh/kg). One group just reached 675 Wh/kg.

This would not only spell the end of fossil fuel, but also end experiments with fuel cells.

“This is a high enough density to power trucks, trains, and arguably mid-haul aircraft, long thought to be beyond the reach of electrification. The team believes it can reach 1,200 Wh/kg. If so, almost all global transport can be decarbonised more easily than we thought, and probably at a negative net cost compared to continuation of the hydrocarbon status quo.”

The Argonne National Laboratory is responsible for all of this innovation in battery technology for electric vehicles. That means future range of electric vehicles over a thousand miles or more. It promises to do so cheaply without exhausting the global supply of critical minerals in the process.

“Professor Larry Curtiss, the project leader, told me that his battery needs no cobalt. That eliminates reliance on the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which accounts for 74pc of the world’s production and has become a Chinese economic colony for the extraction of raw materials.”

Obviously there are tons of questions that need to be answered:

• How long would this take to move out of innovation and into implementation?
• How quickly can it get to the important $100/kWh cost?
• How will this do in weather?

The Argonne National Laboratory in the US is a joint project with the Illinois Institute of Technology.