Pushing the lithium-ion limit
29 Oct 2019
As the global demand for consumer electronics, electric cars and renewable energy rise, the need for new battery production options becomes ever clearer…
- 300-500 charge/discharge cycles before a Li-ion battery dies
- 40% of the world’s mined cobalt used by the Li-ion battery market
- 100 million kg of graphite used in batteries each year
- 5% of Li-ion batteries are recycled in the European Union
- 20% capacity lost in a lithium ion battery per year when stored fully charged at around room temperature
- 250 million electric vehicles on the road by 2030, by IEA estimates
Read more: Current Li-ion tech won't cut it, but atomic insights could lead to a new approach
