It's just chemistry
How does a chemist improve battery technology? In the case of Pellion Technologies, they conducted around 10,000 separate experiments to find the ultimate materials for their electrodes. The answer to their quest lay in magnesium. |
| Pellion believes the future of batteries is magnesium |
Pellion Technologies is a spin-off company from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and has the backing of US government research agency, ARPA-E and venture capitalist, Vinod Khosla of Khosla Ventures.
Pellion reckons that their low cost magnesium ion batteries will perform better with a higher energy density than existing top-of -the-range lithium ones and they'll be cheaper too. So, higher power and cheaper? If their claims are true they could be on to a real winner.
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| Abundant and cheap Magnesium |
Related links
Moving beyond Lithium (Pellion whte paper)Computer modelling a better battery (GigaOm)
Exploring alternatives to Lithium
Magnesium rather than Lithium for rechargeable car batteries
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