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Solid Power’s 22-layer, 20Ah all solid-state lithium metal cell compared to the company’s first-generation 10-layer, 2Ah cell. Photo: © Solid Power For the whole of the 140-year history of automotive batteries, researchers and their bosses have tended to secrecy. Even when forced to say something as a requirement of government or private funding, the default has been half-truths, and sometimes less. The main reason for all the hiding has been sincere: Batteries are hard and victories over ...

A deep sea worker holding a “nodule” containing nickel, manganese, and copper. Photo courtesy of DeepGreen Over the next couple of weeks, Faraday Future, a California startup building a $180,000 electric crossover SUV, is to go public in a $3.4 billion reverse merger. Faraday’s exceedingly stylish flagship FF 91, scheduled for delivery next year, is chock-full of smart design and digital touches. Yet, amid a coming scrum of other elegant electrics, in addition to market-leading T...

Biden’s appointment of two antitrust firebrands leaves little room for ambiguity Lina Khan, author of the Yale Law Journal article “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox,” in her home in Larchmont, New York on July 7, 2017. If you haven’t noticed by now, two major Biden administration appointments affecting antitrust policy are attracting extraordinary chatter across industries, experts, and media. The reason is vexing confusion as to whether President Biden is signaling that he i...

A new paper has claimed up to a 25% capacity loss Lithium in its pure extracted state in evaporation ponds at Uyuni Salt Flat, Bolivia. Photo: Pablo Cozzaglio/AFP/Getty For years, they were the Don Quixotes of the battery world — tinkerers in pure lithium metal romantically seeking to install them in batteries, only to find them catching fire and the answers they thought would fix them a mirage. Then, over the last six months, these People of La Mancha became the toast of Silicon Valley an...

A new paper has claimed up to a 25% capacity loss Lithium in its pure extracted state in evaporation ponds at Uyuni Salt Flat, Bolivia. Photo: Pablo Cozzaglio/AFP/Getty For years, they were the Don Quixotes of the battery world — tinkerers in pure lithium metal romantically seeking to install them in batteries, only to find them catching fire and the answers they thought would fix them a mirage. Then, over the last six months, these People of La Mancha became the toast of Silicon Valley an...

Solid Power’s 22-layer, 20Ah all solid-state lithium metal cell compared to the company’s first-generation 10-layer, 2Ah cell. Photo: © Solid Power For the whole of the 140-year history of automotive batteries, researchers and their bosses have tended to secrecy. Even when forced to say something as a requirement of government or private funding, the default has been half-truths, and sometimes less. The main reason for all the hiding has been sincere: Batteries are hard and victories over ...

A new paper has claimed up to a 25% capacity loss Lithium in its pure extracted state in evaporation ponds at Uyuni Salt Flat, Bolivia. Photo: Pablo Cozzaglio/AFP/Getty For years, they were the Don Quixotes of the battery world — tinkerers in pure lithium metal romantically seeking to install them in batteries, only to find them catching fire and the answers they thought would fix them a mirage. Then, over the last six months, these People of La Mancha became the toast of Silicon Valley an...