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EV Technology => Batteries => Topic started by: jeffrey.miller on June 26, 2015, 01:33:45 AM

Title: New manufacturing approach slices lithium-ion battery cost in half
Post by: jeffrey.miller on June 26, 2015, 01:33:45 AM

http://newsoffice.mit.edu/2015/manufacturing-lithium-ion-battery-half-cost-0623


An advanced manufacturing approach for lithium-ion batteries, developed by researchers at MIT and at a spinoff company called 24M, promises to significantly slash the cost of the most widely used type of rechargeable batteries while also improving their performance and making them easier to recycle.
“We’ve reinvented the process,” says Yet-Ming Chiang, the Kyocera Professor of Ceramics at MIT and a co-founder of 24M (and previously a co-founder of battery company A123). The existing process for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries, he says, has hardly changed in the two decades since the technology was invented, and is inefficient, with more steps and components than are really needed.

Title: Re: New manufacturing approach slices lithium-ion battery cost in half
Post by: ted.lowe on June 30, 2015, 02:51:17 PM

 “semisolid battery" is genius!  More creativity from an A123 co-founder (great street cred imo).