Elon Musk Reveals ALL-NEW 4.0 Batteries Design, Changes Everything in 2024!

electric cars certainly reduce your carbon Footprints but making lithium ion batteries could emit 74 more CO2 or carbon dioxide than conventional cars what if there was a cheaper more environmentally friendly Battery Technology that didn't use any metals a starter startup a startup poly Jewel has come up with a new breakthrough type of battery made entirely from Good Old plastic we've got a technology that will meet all the criteria of the grid and on top of that it's easier to deploy so why would anyone want to use a plastic battery and given the intermittent nature of renewable energy battery storage is a critical Link in the Renewable Power System among the many technologies that are emerging in the domain boston-based poly Jewel a spin-off of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a battery that uses electrodes made of conductive polymers polyjoule polymers anyway these are plastic like non-metal organic compounds that function as Metals for the purposes of charging and discharging energy in a battery polyjoule outlined their approach that we do everything throwing out the rules of existing Lithium-ion batteries so want to know how this battery charging time compares to the 4680 lithium ion battery political also claims its polymer battery outperforms lithium ion across the Spectrum with approximately 12 000 charge cycles this battery outperforms the 4680 battery by 600 percent in contrast a 4680 battery might manage only around two to three thousand charge cycles in its lifetime polyjoule batteries are also able to discharge around one megawatt of power in 10 seconds compared to the 60 seconds in average lithium-ion battery needs the team also suggests a polyjoule can be charged in under 5 minutes which is seven times faster than the 4680 battery cells because the 4680 batteries would require around 32 minutes or so to reach a level of charge of 80 percent moreover we all know that 4680 batteries have lifespans of around 25 years but polyjual claims that their technology could nearly double that with a projected lifespan of 50. moreover its lifespan is almost three times longer than GM's ultium battery in real world use an ultium battery will last around 150 to 250 000 miles which is equivalent to 11 to 18 years but another important area that we need to discuss is obviously the expense how much is this polygel battery gonna run you experts suggest that for Batteries to be useful in renewable energy storage their price needs to be reduced to around twenty dollars U.S polyjril is not quite at that point yet the team claims their batteries function at around 65 dollars per kilowatt hour in contrast although lithium ion batteries have reduced drastically in price in the last decade they still average around 132 dollars per kilowatt hour a polyjule battery is also one and a half times less expensive than an ultium battery which is priced at a hundred dollars per kilowatt hour but what about the manufacturing process for this type of battery is it easy and is it safe for the environment so we start with the Periodic Table of organic elements since they are constricted entirely of Polymer polyjule batteries do not contain minerals such as lithium or Cobalt which must be extracted and refined before use their water-based manufacturing chemistry can be produced using already commercially available equipment and does not require clean room conditions to prove the ease of production the startup has already produced over 10 000 polyjule batteries using simple roll to roll processing based on 10 000 trials that makes a very good battery for the home that meets that criteria low cost uh safe and a long lifetime prize prediction can reach 30 dollars per kilowatt hour in 2025 but one aspect that many people are interested in is the level of safety because there are many battery fires happening in this day and age so how about this battery polygel batteries can actually deliver the high power Peaks over shorter durations without sacrificing the polyjoule is described as Ultra safe and unlike lithium ion batteries it will not become warped or disfigured with overuse having an inherently safer chemistry allows polyjewel to save on system integration costs among other things polyjell batteries don't contain flammable solvents which means no added expenses related to fire mitigation safer chemistry also means ease of storage and polygel batteries are currently undergoing Global safety certification UL approval to be allowed indoors and on airplanes finally with high power built into the chemistry polyjoules cells can be charged and discharged to extremes without the need for heating or cooling systems moreover according to the company their batteries are 95 recyclable because it's polymer based and they use organic materials instead of bulk metals to form a battery using polymers for these types of batteries could create a whole new market for recyclable materials which could be major Plastics could be put into the batteries so at the end of their lives they are recyclable besides the great advantages this battery has some roadblocks ahead and now let's talk about them a poly dual battery cell under development has an energy density five times smaller than 4680 or about 60 watt hours per kilogram this means polyjoule would need a battery five times as big to store the same amount of energy making it not ideal for your phone laptop electric vehicles or other applications where size is an important consideration each power string measures 2.2 meters by 0.8 meter by 3.4 meters and weighs 1590 kilograms its nominal voltage is 528 volts and the voltage range is 158 to 972 the manufacturer ensures continuous operation at temperatures between negative 40 50 degrees Celsius with minimal capacity loss polyjoule is directing their batteries largely towards static applications such as air conditioners and heaters industrial energy storage and data centers in particular they suggest their batteries will be particularly useful in situations where a lot of energy is needed quickly such as in critical infrastructure and renewable energy management today's conventional lithium ion grit scale battery storage facilities like Tesla's powerwall and power pack can typically Supply electricity to the grid for about four hours they're also optimized for regular daily use charge up during the day when the sun is shining or the wind is blowing then discharged in the late afternoon and early evening when the demand for electricity spikes they aren't really designed to store electricity for days weeks or months however polyjoules plastic batteries might be able to store energy for longer at about 20 hours it's an impressive time they're also figuring out if the polyjule batteries can store seasonal energy to balance the grid battery storage is always speculative the transition from laboratory to commercialization is fraught with danger however by the end of the year polyjule will have delivered its first 10 kilowatt hour system exiting stealth mode and adding commercial viability to its demonstrated technological superiority lead to the commercialization of sodium batteries as soon as the cost of living batteries will increase again the cost of lithium has risen from 4450 per ton in 2012 to 78 000 and 32 dollars in 2022. that's an increase of a thousand six hundred and fifty four percent in the past decade and a 480 percent increase in just the past year now what if a new battery costs only about 15 and 15 cents per kilowatt hour compared to the 101 dollars per kilowatt hour price of a lithium-based battery this is exactly the exciting battery Innovation that c-a-l-t has to offer so what makes the cost of this groundbreaking battery so low what other advantages come with it Battery Technology is moving so fast that sometimes it's hard to keep up that being said catl has set up a large supply chain for the batteries and has entered negotiations with some car makers about the possibilities of sodium ion battery use sodium ion technology is ready cheap and safe but can it oust lithium ion Elon Musk tweeted that the price of lithium has gone to insane levels so how then does the price of a sodium ion battery compare the absolute advantage of sodium ion is the low cost sodium is 2.3 percent of the world's crust it's over one thousand times more abundant than lithium from the perspective of raw materials for anodes the recent price of lithium carbonate is 570 000 per ton while the price of sodium carbonate is less than three thousand dollars per ton this means it is 190 times cheaper than a a Lithium-Ion battery calt even said that sodium has better conductivity and that the concentration of the electrolyte can be reduced which also reduces the cost by about 85 percent and they're they're more common easily found cheaper though those are the advantages the average price of a Tesla 4680 battery pack will be a hundred and one dollars per kilowatt hour in 2022. we can then use this to calculate the new battery costs which is roughly at 15.15 per kilowatt hour or nearly seven times less than the 4680 battery thus if you own a Tesla Model 3 standard range with an estimated battery battery capacity of 50 kilowatt hours instead of having to pay five thousand and fifty dollars for a revolutionary game changing battery the cost is really low but then how far can the sodium ion battery actually go its applications in passenger cars have shown that it generally meets the needs of models with a range of up to 248 miles through pioneering its a b battery system integration technology catl has achieved a mix of sodium ion and lithium ion allowing them to complement each other and thus increase the energy density of the battery system this approach allows sodium ion batteries to be able to support EV models with a range of up to 310 miles while the 4680 model y has only a 279 mile range but charging time is what most electric vehicles often care about so how long would it take to charge a sodium ion battery catl's sodium ion cells can charge in 15 minutes to 80 percent at room temperature for comparison with fast charging at a public station a model y from Tesla recharged from zero to eighty percent in 32 minutes which is over two times longer than the sodium ion battery now how well does sodium ion perform in freezing temperatures Lithium-ion batteries can only phone function optimally at 15 degrees to 35 degrees Celsius which is why they are problematic in the wintertime catl's sodium ion battery will sustain a 90 capacity retention rate at negative 20 degrees Celsius and still has a retention rate of more than 70 percent at negative 40 degrees Celsius in Winter the problem of electric vehicles inability to cruise will no longer be apparent also we haven't seen anything that says there is a significant degradation at higher temperatures either now how safe are sodium ion batteries actually the sodium ion battery has similar working principles to the lithium-ion battery sodium ions also shuttle between the cathode and anode however compared to lithium ions sodium ions have a larger volume as well as higher requirements in terms of structural stability and kinetic properties this has become a bottleneck for the industrialization of sodium ion batteries sodium ion batteries are safer because they are less flammable than Lithium-ion batteries newly developed sodium ion technology uses a naturally fire extinguishing solution that is also impervious to temperature changes and can operate at high voltages one key to this feature is the ultra thin protective layer that forms on the anode this ultra thin layer remains stable once formed providing the long cycle life reported in the research article despite making significant breakthroughs the chemical composition of lithium metal batteries has always posed a lot of challenges what are they exactly now I understand that sodium ion batteries have a lower energy density than lithium ion the biggest downside is that sodium ion batteries have a lower energy density than Lithium-ion batteries this means an EV with a sodium battery that's the same size as a standard lithium ion battery would not be able to travel as far on a single charge catl's first generation sodium battery generates 160 Watt hours of electricity next to a mainstream lithium battery last year catl unveiled its first sodium battery prototype and said it's been focusing on developing new technologies for a second generation sodium battery that can generate 200 watt hours per kilogram in contrast mainstream Lithium-ion batteries have 200 to 300 watt hours per kilogram although their lower energy density is improving constantly the first generation of sodium ion batteries is better than lithium ion cells from six or seven years ago how about real life applications makes a difference in the kind of applications in which they're used the first generation of sodium ion batteries can be used in various Transportation electrification scenarios especially in regions with extremely low temperatures where their outstanding advantages become obvious also it can be flexibly adapted to the application needs of all scenarios in the energy storage field we now see that various new batteries are being investigated in the lab but it oftentimes takes them five or even 10 years to reach Market or will they be released soon the U.S and China and also a large battery company crtl recently announced that they will go on production actually in 2023. even so sodium ion batteries will eventually become the mainstream Choice Lithium-ion batteries will be most likely used in up Market vehicles but for everyday use we don't need the expensive lithium this is as much of a revolution as the electric car itself as we have finally found a cheaper and more viable battery option Tesla has estimated that there are five lithium battery Fires for every billion miles traveled compared to 55 fires per billion miles traveled in gasoline cars however it can take up to 24 hours for a battery fire to be fully extinguished to solve this LG chem has developed new breakthrough materials that have the longest flame blocking duration so why wouldn't anyone want this material and how effective is it exactly LG Kim said it had developed a highly heat resistant plastic that can signif significantly delay thermal runaway and the 4680 batteries used in Tesla's electric vehicles LG said the new material has the longest flame blocking duration in the world but what kind of plastic LG chem's new flame retardant material is described as a highly functional engineering plastic comprising various material groups including poly polyphenylene oxide polyamide and polybutylene terrephalate compared with other flame retardant Plastics the materials can block heat for longer periods of time when it is applied to the electric vehicle's battery pack cover but then how much does this plastic material from LG chem cost according to LG the cost of the material is only 20 percent of a Tesla's 4680 battery pack Tesla charges seven thousand and four hundred dollars for a model y 4680 pack therefore installing this extra material only costs around 1500 if you don't want to fire in your car this expense is insignificant now how exactly does it help LG Kemp said in-house tests showed the material prevented flame propagation for over 400 seconds above a thousand degrees 45 times longer than General flame retardant Plastics which would provide more tire for the safe evacuation of vehicle occupants in the case of a battery fire the material is also said to have superb dimensional stability maintaining its shape despite extreme temperature changes LG chem said thermal runaway is a main cause of fire in electric vehicle batteries which which occurs when battery cells suffer stresses from various sources causing over voltage and over discharge short circuits fires start once the cell's internal temperature rises above a certain level Lithium-ion batteries are also highly reactive to water meaning that fires are hard to extinguish with water last year several EV fires in the U.S which caused severe injury were found to have been caused by defective lges batteries but speaking of the flame blocking duration how about the longevity of this material how many years will it last this product is expected to last 50 years because it's made of durable materials unless your car unfortunately catches fire in which you'll then have to replace the cover I've got to say there's many advantages to having this cover so when are we going to see this material in the real world LG chem intends to begin commercial production next year and work on patent applications for the new material in South Korea the United States and Europe is already underway according to the company for Tesla the 4680 batteries are an essential component how then is manufacturing of the Tesla 4680 battery coming along Tesla announced this week that the Cato rode pilot battery facility in Fremont California achieved a new production Milestone according to the company's tweet the team managed to produce roughly 868 04680 type cylindrical lithium ion battery cells during the last week that's about a hundred and twenty four thousand cells produced every day a Twitter user Alex has made a production Grant forecast for the 4680 batteries he expects a run rate of 4 million cells per month in mid-January of 2023. the current run rate is about 3 840 000 per month previously this facility produced a cumulative number of 1 million 4680 type cells in February since the production started in 2020 we don't know what the current cumulative number is but the 10 months now but with 10 months now down the road it should be more than 10 million units with current production how many model y's will be produced we now see that 868 04680 battery cells are enough to produce over a thousand model y Vehicles annualized that's 52 000 cars a year with 4680 batteries the cells are used to produce one type of model y vehicle with a structural battery pack at gigafact Texas Tesla is definitely on an exponential Trend and these 4680 batteries will be used in the Tesla semi the Cyber truck and possibly the model 3 with lfp batteries but that remains to be seen but what are Tesla's competitors doing to ramp up battery production it's from German luxury car maker BMW which has shown off its latest electric car technology but the company has all but admitted to copying Tesla's work so the question has to be asked can BMW take on musk BMW's new battery is known as the Gen 6 and it is a complete departure from any battery design they've used before the Gen 6 is a large cylindrical battery 46 millimeters wide and either 95 millimeters or 120 millimeters tall for comparison Tesla's cell is slightly smaller at 46 millimeters by 80. so what then is the result of all of this innovation in the BMW battery well BMW can get 30 more range from these packs allowing the them to build EVS with over 620 miles of range the Tesla Model y all-wheel drive is equipped with 4680 type batteries rated at 279 miles of range which is 341 miles less than the BMW battery the Gen 6's weight also goes down by up to 30 percent thanks to the in to the increased energy density the new internal chemistry and better cooling allows charge speeds of 270 kilowatts making 10 to 80 percent charge times as short as 15 minutes in contrast charging a model y equipped with the new battery at the latest at the latest V3 supercharger attained a maximum charging power of 250 kilowatts and took 32 minutes to charge from zero to 80 percent it looks like BMW's new battery is making big breakthroughs moreover BMW is bringing in a third-party manufacturer to get production started which may get these batteries into their cars by 2025. so does this spell out the end of test Tesla's EV dominance musk has several options first he could compile could pile more money onto the 4680 development and ramp production up to scale more quickly Tesla does have the cash reserves to be able to do this as well after all I'm sure BMW wouldn't mind getting a licensing fee for this battery and Tesla already uses catl to supply their 2170 batteries either way it seems Tesla has always been ahead it's taken BMW many years to catch up to Tesla so this is a massive Improvement so good things are happening on a lot of levels we just need to go faster Elon Musk added I believe that one day in the future we will develop a super fast charging electric vehicle battery opening a new era for the electric vehicle battery industry in the past the Tesla CEO has always been looking for a way to have a battery for Tesla electric cars that can charge very quickly hoping to one day have a charging time that's even faster than fueling up at the gas pump that is about out to become a reality as recently scientists have developed a type of battery that can charge in just in one minute so what battery is it and will it replace the 4680 batteries a research team at the Korea Advanced Institute of science and technology or k-a-i-s-t has developed a high energy density Ultra fast rechargeable hybrid lithium-ion battery that can be used in smart electronic devices and EVS also according to the scientists on the research team the new hybrid lithium ion battery cells are claimed to deliver far more power density than current lithium ion batteries without the cooling and heating problems that normally would be apparent accordingly it can be rapidly charged with a high power density of 22 600 watts per kilogram which is expected to overcome the limitations of the current energy storage system which will truly be a breakthrough so a battery pack weighing 1000 pounds could achieve a battery charging rate of 22 megawatts that would charge your vehicle 220 times faster than current charge sessions if there's a way to deliver that much power to the vehicle somehow so yes you'd definitely be done with electric vehicle charging in under a minute the research team synthesized a porous carbon Hollow structure with a large surface area by changing the orientation of the polymer resin from linear to Twisted when the Twisted resin was carbonized more micropores were formed and a carbon structure with a surface area 12 times larger than that of the conventional linear resin was created the carbon structure created through this process was used as the capacitor type cathode material in addition the anode was made using a germanium embedded Hollow carbon nanospheric material to reduce degradation and maximize the dispersion of lithium ions the researchers found that the hybrid lithium ion batteries using those special electrodes had an energy density which is higher than that of conventional Lithium-ion batteries and the power density characteristics of a capacitor allowing for recharge within a minute they also claimed that so far there are no temperature problems 25 percent of a Lithium-Ion battery pack in a vehicle is to do with cooling them there is a very high chance that we won't need that cooling or heating at all one advantage that makes this new hybrid lithium ion battery more competitive than conventional lithium ion batteries is the cost of production According to some sources the price of each hybrid lithium-ion battery charging in one minute is only around 5.21 cents meanwhile the price of a Tesla 4680 battery is at about 11 so the cost of each hybrid lithium battery is much cheaper than that of the 4680 researchers at the Massachusetts Institutes of Technology said that research and development particularly in chemistry and Materials Science has been the major factor in dropping the price of the hybrid lithium ion battery the group examined data from a wide variety of sources reaching the conclusion that in improvements to the technology through research and development have been responsible for at least 50 percent of the price reductions achieved so far Dr Micah s Ziegler at The Institute for data systems and Society at MIT a member of the researcher team also analyzes that efforts to increase cell charge densities made a 38 contribution to the overall cost reductions of battery while work to reduce the cost of cathode materials made up 18 percent and reductions in non-materials costs constituted 14 not only that the lifespan of the hybrid lithium-ion battery charging in one minute can be up to around 80 years which is similar to 1.2 million miles capable meanwhile the life of 4680 Tesla battery cells is designed to be used for 20 to 30 years thus the lifespan of this Ultra fast charging battery is about 2.7 times as high as the lifespan of the Tesla 4680 battery so when will this Ultra fast charging hybrid lithium ion battery officially be put into mass production currently the scientists over at kaist say that they are only in the early stages of research and development of this battery hence it will still take a few more years to officially bring it to the market on top of that has any manufacturer produced a one minute rechargeable battery yet previously an electric vehicle startup Fisker announced a battery that charges very quickly in just one minute but after that Fisker said that it had given up on solid-state batteries after having announced a breakthrough That was supposed to enable 500 miles of range and one minute charging in its electric cars Fisker believes that the technology is nowhere near ready for commercialization in the meantime other battery manufacturers with Scientists have also moved one step closer to producing super fast batteries accordingly researchers from the University of Queensland and the Australian graphene manufacturing group or GMG have presented a new graphene aluminum ion on battery that is supposed to charge 60 times faster than current Lithium-ion batteries in only 10 seconds and is a more sustainable battery prototype with a lifespan three times the length of current Lithium-ion batteries with an estimated lifetime of 3 000 charge slash discharge Cycles meanwhile a typical lithium-ion battery lasts about 1 000 Cycles additionally store dot the pioneer of extreme fast charging or xfc Battery Technology for electric vehicles has revealed its strategic technology roadmap labeled 100 and X which will deliver batteries capable of charging 100 miles of range on just a two minute charge with mass production Readiness planned within 10 years storedot is also firmly on track for its first milestone for Global Automotive manufacturers which include producing its silicon dominant anode xfc lithium-ion cells at scale by 2024 that will be capable of delivering 100 miles of range in 5 minutes of charge and most recently the Israeli startup has successfully demonstrated its 105 extreme fast charging battery technology publicly charging a full-scale EV battery pouch cell with enough energy in 5 minutes for 100 miles of range the demonstration featured a 300 by 100 millimeter pouch cell produced at Eve Energy's manufacturing plant in China the battery was charged under a 10 minute time limit during which the cell charged to 20 ampere hours or amp hours exceeding the 0 to 80 percent capacity targets set for the demonstration furthermore an extreme fast charging battery Tech developed by the Israeli startup got one step closer to commercial viability with an investments from Volvo cars Tech fund the Swedish car makers Venture Capital arm that's it for today's episode we sincerely thank you for watching and for all of your support of our Channel and as always if you enjoyed our video please leave a like share the video subscribe to the channel and ring that Bell to stay up to date on exciting developments in the world of EV and please be sure to leave a comment down below to tell us what you thought about today's content once again we thank you so much from all of us here we hope to see 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Length: 31min 13sec (1873 seconds)

Published: Fri Feb 10 2023