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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 5401980" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11214911/New-battery-electric-cars-charges-3-minutes-lasts-20-years.html[/URL]Currently, EVs contain lithium-ion batteries that degrade over time and last up to seven or eight years, depending on how much they&#039;re used – much like a smartphone battery.But this new solid-state, lithium-metal battery can increase the lifetime of EVs to a comparable length to petrol and diesel cars – up to 20 years – without the need to ever replace the battery during this time.The startup aims to scale the battery up to a palm-sized &#039;pouch cell&#039; – which has components enclosed in an aluminium-coated film – and then toward a full-scale vehicle battery in the next three to five years. &#039;We have achieved in the lab 5,000 to 10,000 charge cycles in a battery&#039;s lifetime, compared with 2,000 to 3,000 charging cycles for even the best in class now, and we don’t see any fundamental limit to scaling up our battery technology,&#039; said Li. &#039;That could be a game changer.&#039; Lithium-metal batteries hold substantially more energy in the same volume and charge in a fraction of the time compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 5401980, member: 12952"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11214911/New-battery-electric-cars-charges-3-minutes-lasts-20-years.html[/URL] Currently, EVs contain lithium-ion batteries that degrade over time and last up to seven or eight years, depending on how much they're used – much like a smartphone battery. But this new solid-state, lithium-metal battery can increase the lifetime of EVs to a comparable length to petrol and diesel cars – up to 20 years – without the need to ever replace the battery during this time. The startup aims to scale the battery up to a palm-sized 'pouch cell' – which has components enclosed in an aluminium-coated film – and then toward a full-scale vehicle battery in the next three to five years. 'We have achieved in the lab 5,000 to 10,000 charge cycles in a battery's lifetime, compared with 2,000 to 3,000 charging cycles for even the best in class now, and we don’t see any fundamental limit to scaling up our battery technology,' said Li. 'That could be a game changer.' Lithium-metal batteries hold substantially more energy in the same volume and charge in a fraction of the time compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries. [/QUOTE]

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