The Race to Produce Higher Performing Batteries
Companies like SES, QuantumScape and Solid Power are trying to improve cell performance while making batteries safer and less expensive.
Hand holding QuantumScape’s proprietary ceramic separator that enables fast charge of lithium anodes.
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Greetings, Hyperdrivers. It’s James Frith here again this week. Last week battery startup SES announced it had developed the world’s largest lithium metal cell. The cell itself is still a prototype, but the company expects to be producing them commercially for use in EVs by 2025. Off the back of this announcement, I want to talk about batteries using lithium metal anodes, and the differences between SES and its peers QuantumScape and Solid Power.