https://interrupt.memfault.com/blog/monitoring-battery-life
Batteries are mysterious – do read how to reduce their mystery.
https://techxplore.com/news/2023-07-aluminum-radical-battery-sustainable-power.html
Alumnium radical battery made in Australia.
“In its latest electric vehicle outlook, BloombergNEF updated its battery chemistry forecasts, which now include sodium-ion batteries accounting for 3% of passenger car market battery demand in 2035 and 30% of battery demand in the two- and three-wheeler segment.
Those sodium-ion batteries, which don’t use lithium, could help displace up to 7% of lithium demand in 2035. While that percentage seems small, it equates to more than half of all the lithium demand last year.”
https://about.bnef.com/electric-vehicle-outlook/
https://scitechdaily.com/record-breaking-advances-in-next-generation-flow-battery-design/
A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has made a significant breakthrough in flow battery design using a common food and medicine additive called β-cyclodextrin, derived from starch. The study, published in the journal Joule, reveals that the flow battery maintained its capacity for energy storage and release for over a year of constant cycling.
Reference: “Prelithiation Effects in Enhancing Silicon-Based Anodes for Full-Cell Lithium-Ion Batteries Using Stabilized Lithium Metal Particles” by Quan Anh Nguyen, Anulekha K. Haridas, Tanguy Terlier and Sibani Lisa Biswal, 1 May 2023, ACS Applied Energy Materials.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/07/e-bike-battery-lithium-ion-fire/674622/
What makes the batteries so useful is also what can make them risky. “They put a lot of energy into a small little package,” Michael Pecht, a mechanical-engineering professor at the University of Maryland,
https://spectrum.ieee.org/lithium-battery
For Cheaper Lithium-Ion Batteries, Just Add Salt