[ref http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/EVLN-Nikola-claims-4x-energy-2k-cycle-50-cheaper-li-ion-tp4695719.html EVLN: Nikola claims 4x-energy, 2k-cycle, 50% cheaper li-ion Nov 20 2019 ]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alanohnsman/2019/11/24/nikola-motors-bombshell-battery-claim-irks-experts-who-think-its-secret-may-lie-in-sulfur/#6a21e9057d89 Nikola Motor’s Bombshell Battery Claim Irks Experts, Who Think Its Secret May Lie In Sulfur Nov 24, 2019 Alan Ohnsman [image https://specials-images.forbesimg.com/imageserve/5dd897d62c886a0007ecdfee/960x0.jpg?fit=scale Nikola Tre The electric Nikola Tre commercial truck is to be offered as a battery-powered model or with a ... [+]NIKOLA ] Nikola Motor CEO Trevor Milton seems dead set on challenging Elon Musk’s dominance for audacious transportation ideas, upstaging the Tesla chief’s “Cybertruck” debut with a claim that his own ... electric vehicle company has a breakthrough battery. Experts suspect Nikola’s secret tech derives from cell chemistry that scores of researchers are also digging into. Milton, whose Phoenix-based startup intends to start delivering zero-emission semi-trucks in 2021, said last week that Nikola’s battery cell has double the energy density, only 40% of the weight and half the cost of 2170 lithium-ion cells used in Teslas and other consumer-market electric vehicles. He tells Forbes those gains come from eliminating costly metals such as nickel, cobalt and magnesium, use of a “free-standing electrode” and a “whole different type of chemical, with a lithium component.” ... it plans to offer battery-only variants. The new cell was developed by a specific university lab Nikola was involved with from an early stage and “locked up all the IP,” Milton says. That’s all the company is saying for now and public demonstrations won’t happen until the second half of 2020. Today In: Business “I have a strong conviction that it’s safe to dismiss this out of hand—their claims are ridiculous,” said Sam Jaffe, managing director of Boulder, Colorado-based consulting firm Cairn Energy Research Advisors, which specializes in energy storage technology. “Why would they claim this without waiting until they could publicly reveal what the chemistry is and the university laboratory they are working with? It’s very fishy.” Sulfur is one possible alternative to current lithium-ion cells, Jaffe said. “I would assume they’re looking at sulfur in the cathode and lithium metal in the anode. Untold hundreds of university and industry labs are working on that. If you get to those, if you can make it work, it would have a significant improvement on current lithium-ion, but nowhere near what they are claiming.” [© forbes.com] + (cheaply made li-ion.cn explodes) https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/video/electric-vehicle-battery-explodes-while-charging-in-store-in-wenzhou-china/vp-BBXsk1d Electric Vehicle Battery Explodes While Charging in Store in ... An electric vehicle battery exploded while charging in a store in Wenzhou, China, on November 25, 2019 ... https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/video/video.storyful.com/7cbb8ea0852b8346281fa74e61a32382 For EVLN EV-newswire posts use: http://www.evdl.org/archive/ {brucedp.neocities.org} -- Sent from: http://electric-vehicle-discussion-list.413529.n4.nabble.com/ _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub ARCHIVE: http://www.evdl.org/archive/index.html INFO: http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org Please discuss EV drag racing at NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
