RE:RE:New Aluminum-Ion Battery Charges 60x Faster Than Lithium-IonAlso, https://newatlas.com/energy/sandwich-style-battery-charge-evs-10-minutes/" The alternative architecture is also claimed to offer a far longer lifespan than comparable batteries, by making use of high-performance lithium metal and a solid electrolyte to remain stable over many thousands of cycles."
tess4344 wrote: Thanks Ptucker763, intriguing article, are we going to have some competition with lithium?
I started researching and found a piece on Wikipedia
Challenges[edit]
Aluminium-ion batteries have a relatively short shelf life. The combination of heat, rate of charge, and cycling can dramatically decrease energy capacity. One of the primary reasons for this short shelf life is the fracture of the traditional graphite anode, the Al ions being far larger than the Li ions used in conventional battery systems.[10] When metal ion batteries are fully discharged, they can no longer be recharged. Ionic electrolytes, while improving safety and the long term stability of the devices by minimizing corrosion, are expensive to manufacture and purchase and may therefore be unsuited to the mass production of Al ion devices.[11] In addition, current breakthroughs are only in limited laboratory settings, where a lot more work needs to be done on scaling up the production for use in commercial settings.[12]