The potential here is hugeTESLA IS WORKING ON A MANGANESE-BASED...

The potential here is huge

TESLA IS WORKING ON A MANGANESE-BASED BATTERY PROJECT WITH THE AIM OF MAKING PRODUCTION MORE VIABLE AND LOW-COST.AutomotiveTesla is working on a manganese-based battery project with the aim of making production more viable and low-cost.Tesla - Elon Musk - carros elétricos - baterias - - Manganês Tesla factory in Fremont - image: Insideevs/UOL Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, says the new manganese battery could be the key to scaling production of electric cars and making them more attractively priced.In a speech to employees of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin during the factory's opening ceremony, Elon Musk confirmed that his collaborators are exploring manganese as a material for new batteries. According to the businessman, the studies aim to scale electric car batteries for the 300 terawatt-hours of annual production needed to achieve sustainable transport, but for that, alternatives to affordable LFP battery materials will be needed.Elon Musk defends the use of manganese-based electric car batteriesElon Musk dances at the delivery of the first Tesla Gigafactory Berlin cars – Reproduction/YoutubeElon Musk has long been an advocate of the use of manganese as a cathode material in electric vehicle batteries and he just reiterated his preferences during the opening ceremony of the Tesla Gigafactory Berlin.Asked about the potential of manganese as a material for manufacturing batteries when giving a speech to employees of the German Gigafactory, Elon Musk responded as follows: "I think there is interesting potential for manganese."This isn't the first time Tesla's CEO has mentioned that he's exploring manganese as an alternative to the current iron or phosphorus the company uses in LFP batteries for its standard vehicles. According to Musk, the world will need no less than 300 terawatt hours (TWh) of battery cell production at some point to completely change the fossil fuel landscape. This scale can only be achieved with cheap and plentiful materials like manganese-based batteries.Nickel soars and Elon Musk studies the possibility of manganese-based batteriesO recent stratospheric rise in nickel price induced by Russian invasion of Ukraine it just proved the Tesla CEO right, as the common nickel-cobalt-aluminum battery materials that go into long-range electric cars are anything but cheap and plentiful.That's why Elon Musk wants to add manganese to the iron and phosphorus used to make more affordable electric car batteries to ultimately have a chance of reaching the hundreds of TWh/year of production needed on the way to sustainable transport. . Tesla is already using manganese in some of its Powerwall battery cells, but at the opening ceremony of the Berlin Gigafactory, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said it can and should become a viable alternative to common battery materials used. Now, since “on a large scale, we need tens of, maybe hundreds of millions of tons. So the materials used to produce these batteries on a large scale have to be common materials or you can't scale."In 2020 Tesla CEO was already talking about the use of manganese for battery productionThis year the Tesla entrepreneur said again that using manganese would be the solution – Reproduction/TwitterWhile this may have come as a surprise to some people, Electrek reminds us that Musk talked about manganese at the company's Battery Day in 2020, when he was unveiling Tesla's 4680 battery cell concept. Musk shared, "It's relatively simple to make a cathode with two-thirds nickel and one-third manganese, which will allow us to produce 50% more cell volume with the same amount of nickel." Aside from the earlier comment and the mention of manganese in his recent speech, not much is known about Tesla's potential for future manganese-based batteries.However, the CEO made it very clear that for Tesla to scale massively, it needs to use common materials. According to Electrek, Tesla is not the only company studying the use of manganese for batteries. Many research groups have already published studies on the use of manganese-based batteries for greater energy density and cost reduction.Leave A Comment On This Article!This article was posted on March 31, 2022 9:22 am 12:22subscribe to updatesTAGS:battery for electric carsbatterieselectric carEletric carsElon MuskManganeseTesla