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Utter tripe about them being "spent" as well. After 8 years Tesla batteries are still retaining a working charge. When unable to provide sufficient energy density to be practical for EV use they still have years of life left in energy storage applications before recycling will be an issue, and the costs of the 100% recycling of lithium will become economically viable as lithium costs rise.
That old chestnut about laptop batteries load of carp. For starters different chemistry also laptop batts are absolutely hammered into the ground there are heating issues because they were used right at the very edge of safety. Mercedes also had same issue with there trucks tried to downsize battery for weight and burnt them out after a year just shows how far ahead tesla is packs engineered to perfection not price.
I have messaged the DM about this and they will not like it, even if they do nothing - let's clog up their servers with the same. Its why I do not buy newspapers too.
The mail is an appalling rag, like most of the british trash media. Anyone reading it can only be misinformed. On any issue.
Northvolt are working on a near fully recyclable EV Battery and Energy Storage System, it’s a shame The Mail didn’t look into that before publishing this rubbish.
VW have just invested €900Million in Northvolt & taken a 20% share ?
Onwards and Upwards
These two following paragraphs are false. This is based off older tech batteries. New batteries don't have ANY of these issues.
Also found in devices such as computers and mobile phones, lithium-ion batteries are rechargeable. Almost every electric vehicle on the road uses them. But they have big drawbacks. As well as lithium, they contain rare, poisonous substances such as cobalt. They can explode or catch fire, as seen with the spate of incidents that forced Samsung to recall tens of thousands of Galaxy Note 7 phones in 2016.
With repeated charging, car-sized models eventually become spent. Recycling them to recover the cobalt and lithium is extremely expensive – about five times as much as the cost of disposing them and starting from scratch.
Is the aluminium air fuel power unit in a barrel and the fuel being petrol by any chance??????
Yep everyone and his dog got a better battery than tesla. Consider the TESLA is as least 5 years ahead in battery tech than everyone else and elon musk has his ear to the ground in that area any new developments will go straight to tesla labs. The new battery tesla has took 10 yrs to develop just in time for next wave of vehicles including trucks
An incredibly skewed article - but hey the Daily Mail never let accuracy get in the way of a story. There may be something there but there seem to be some fundamental issues...
It's not new!!
And the article is flawed:
In a Tesla, Jackson says, the battery costs about £30,000. An aluminium-air fuel cell that would power the same car for longer would cost just £5,000.
Tesla Puts Price on Model 3 Battery Module Replacement Around $5000-$7000. Elon Musk suggests battery modules will cost between $5000-$7000
There’s a reason we are seeing gigafactories coming online for lithium batteries!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery
In March 2013, Phinergy[5] released a video demonstration of an electric car using aluminium–air cells driven 330 km using a special cathode and potassium hydroxide.[6] On May 27, 2013, the Israeli channel 10 evening news broadcast showed a car with Phinergy battery in the back, claiming 2,000 kilometres (1,200 mi) range before replacement of the aluminium anodes is necessary.[7]
I don’t see any partnerships with global companies considering the technology was showcased six years ago but if the chap has managed to get millions for something that already exists then fair play to him.
http://www.phinergy.com/applications/
Home charging a Tesla model 3 is around 3.5p per mile at 14p/Kwh, some energy providers are doing plans that have EV charging rates off-peak at under 5p/Kwh, of course, the long-term plan is to have a smart grid and so perhaps sub 5p/Kwh will be the norm.
Add to that the life of a Tesla battery of 300,000 miles and newer batteries expecting to be around 1,000,000 miles makes it very difficult to see aluminium air batteries replacing lithium
Oh well correct Daily BS but I tend to find Sundays is the day of choice.
In the Daily BS?? hahaha