New lithium ion battery chemistry should be able to power vehicles for over a million miles, while losing less than 10 per cent of its energy capacity, state Canadian electrochemical researchers.
The researchers, from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, are led by Jeffrey Dahn, who has an exclusive agreement with Tesla and is listed as the inventor on a recent patent the company has filed on new lithium battery technology. In a paper published in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, Dahn and his team report a range of testing results on new batteries which, they state, can be used as benchmarks for other researchers looking into similar technologies.
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