“Engineering With Rosie” Barnes explains why EV batteries usually last longer than the car. Determining SOH = state of health. Testing for SOH. Thermal issues. Buying used EVs. The EV batteries are guaranteed for 8 years so the risk is lowered when buying a used EV. She mentioned that there are outliers. Occasionally a used
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CATL with Yutong will sell EV batteries with a 1.5 million km (932,000 mile), 15 Year warranty. They have zero degradation in the first thousand charge / discharge cycles. These will be used in buses. CATL launches new EV battery with close to a 1 million mile, 15-year lifespan
Matt ‘Undecided’ Farrell YT Channel From print OCR Quote: “”The first production under the Naxtra brand will be of a new sodium-ion battery with an energy density of 175 watt-hours per kilogram, nearly equivalent to the lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries popularly used in electric vehicles and grid energy storage systems. Sodium-ion batteries may have
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It’s a good article. https://interestingengineering.com/energy/97-battery-recycling-yield-us-facility-turns-old-lithium-devices-into-new-energy-systems?utm_source=facebook%2Cinstagram%2Clinkedin%2Ctwitter&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwQ0xDSwMHJZdjbGNrAwchlWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAAEezQp2WjbKT1uD0Tb5iS3tyEEpA3Ap4mpcw2vI4xdwGcDi0juYhkxqynS8cEg_aem_o0I0NsmDrms0HakPlfVCIA
Altilium, a British company, recycles 97% of lithium and 99% of carbon from EV batteries. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02hPVnMtv3aXMDugfiUpjsCXCq9g7pPJkrFEPwrvfzf1kJ1KzwYePGeqzJq1LJQ3fyl&id=100064731756949&post_id=100064731756949_pfbid02hPVnMtv3aXMDugfiUpjsCXCq9g7pPJkrFEPwrvfzf1kJ1KzwYePGeqzJq1LJQ3fyl&mibextid=Nif5oz
China turns retired EV batteries and solar cells into $38 billion recycling boom. https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid02o228ieBf25hirnxtU9BsEyAjDGjgcF7fdiErKqHau4w117e3MjPFRSrDKwphr9grl&id=100064499750520&post_id=100064499750520_pfbid02o228ieBf25hirnxtU9BsEyAjDGjgcF7fdiErKqHau4w117e3MjPFRSrDKwphr9grl&mibextid=Nif5oz
And they’re being built as fast as they can make the batteries. https://www.facebook.com/reel/1208896843922953/?mibextid=9drbnH&s=yWDuG2&fs=e
Article said it’s a 228 Megawatt battery project. https://renewablesnow.com/news/colbun-selects-tesla-megapacks-for-228-mw-battery-project-in-chile-1268464/
Sam Electric Viking’s 10.7 min video tells about CATL’s 600 thousand mile battery.
Tesla secures massive contract with power company Intersect Power for its Megapack battery systems: ‘One of the largest and fastest-growing storage portfolios’ https://www.yahoo.com/tech/tesla-secures-massive-contract-power-100000385.html
