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Start-up reaches 1,000Wh/kg

milestone with lithium battery

Innolith, the German start- ganic electrolyte and con- around 250Wh/kg. UK firm Innolith has patents pend-
up that rose from the ashes version reaction materials Oxis Energy has acheived ing for the key inventions
of Alevo, reported on April — although the company 425wh/kg with its lithium of the Energy Battery and is
4 that it has developed the would not say what those sulfur technology, although also maintaining commer-
world’s first 1,000 Wh/kg materials are at this stage. its cells are not commercial- cial confidentiality on the
rechargeable lithium bat- A company spokes- ly available. cell chemistry mechanism.
tery. The technology has the man told ESJ the results Innolith will be bringing Innolith’s non-flammable,
potential to give an electric had been achieved in the this, dubbed as the Energy inorganic rechargeable bat-
vehicle the ability to reach firm’s R&D laboratories in Battery, to market via an teries are being used in its
1,000km per charge, the Bruchsal and that commer- initial pilot production in technology on the US PJM
firm says. cial production was around Germany. The company grid to provide fast fre-
Under development in the three to five years away. plans to follow this with quency regulation services.
company’s German labora- To put this in context, licensing partnerships with The battery has operated
tory, the Innolith battery Panasonic’s 2170 cells major battery and automo- for more than 55,000 full
uses a non-flammable inor- used in Tesla’s Model 3 are tive companies. depth of discharge cycles.

IT firm leads Battery cycle life algorithm opens
consortium’s up second-life EV pack potential
V2G test project
in London Scientists at Stanford Uni- and even years until they mine the life span of end-
versity, the Massachusetts failed. of-life electric vehicle bat-
IT network giant Cisco is Institute of Technology and The new method has tery packs, and optimize
leading a London consor- the Toyota Research In- many potential applica- battery manufacturing,
tium to demonstrate the stitute have developed an tions: it can shorten the such as shortening the for-
use of electric vehicles in a algorithm that can predict time for validating new mation process, said the re-
Vehicle2Grid system that the cycle life of lithium ion types of batteries, deter- searchers.
will power the grid in a batteries within 9% of ac-
project known as E-Flex, tual lifetime cycles. UK zinc bromine company
the consortium announced By combining experimen-
on April 24. tal data with artificial intel- targets stationary market
E-Flex aims to demon- ligence the algorithm can
strate how EV batteries also predict with 95% accu- with new storage product
can reduce the grid de- racy the life expectancy of
mand that mass adoption cells based on the first five Gelion Technologies from a kWh to MWh+
of EVs will cause if the charge/discharge cycles. — a start-up owned by applications.
Department of Transport The findings were pub- Gelion UK, a joint venture Gelion Technologies
meets its target of all new lished in Nature Energy on between the company’s plans to market the prod-
cars and vans being zero March 25. The researchers management and Arm- uct as a low cost and safe
emission by 2040. have made the dataset — strong Energy — launched alternative to lithium ion
The project is calling for the largest of its kind — its Gelion Endure battery batteries.
EV fleet owners to take publicly available. on February 27. Using a gel electrolyte,
part in a real-world test Using millions of data The battery uses zinc- the technology’s 120Wh/
that will be created with points from cell cycles, the bromine chemistry as the kg matches the lower
200 EVs being connected scientists used AI machines energy storage medium end of lithium ion battery
to the grid at peak demand to predict cycle life based but is not a flow battery performance but with the
times. Unused energy will on factors including volt- — as is more common for advantage of a 3,000+
then be sold to the grid — age declines during early the chemical pair. cycle-life at 100% depth
and bought back when the cycling. Gelion, formed in 2015, of discharge at up to 55°C
price of power is cheaper, Peter Attia, a Stanford uses technology devel- (with less need for air
thus cutting the costs of doctoral candidate in ma- oped at the University of cooling).
charging the vehicles. terials science and engi- Sydney and will be used to An integrated BMS is
According to the office of neering and a co-lead au- store solar power to run able to remotely detect
the Mayor of London, the thor of the report, said the mobile light towers on the zinc growth and rejuve-
number of EVs in London algorithm cleared an ex- university’s campus. nate the system to avoid
had increased by ten times pensive bottleneck in bat- However, the battery electrode failure, says the
between 2012 and 2018, tery research whereby new can be connected in series firm, but it has not
with around 12,000 in the cells were charged and dis- or parallel depending on released details on how
UK capital. charged over many months the size of deployment this works.

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