Anybody Want Some Lithium (& other assorted items)?

[gehringer_2]

7 hours ago, romad1 said:

gehringer_2,  evaluate this for me?  (please).

Ford says it has breakthrough Lithium Manganese Rich battery for EVs

To me LinkedIn post seems an odd way to make this kind of release, but hey - I'm old so whatever.

From a chemistry standpoint, there is nothing suspect in any of what Poon said. Cobalt is a cost problem, LFP is safer and more robust than Lithium Cobalt formulations but doesn't have the power density. If you have manipulated a Manganese rich electrode to give you LFP stability and LiCo density you should pat yourself on the back - they still have to prove their electrode system can stand up to real world aging and cycling and that their production system is scalable enough to realize the theoretical cost advantage of eliminating Cobalt.

The thing with batteries though is that there a ton of variables beyond the just chemistry - the details of how you get the various ions into the electrodes to where they need to be in the form they need to be in and keep them stable there for as long as possible mean engineering execution is just as important as the science.