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Have CATL Won The Battle For High Specific Energy?<\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Last week the world’s largest battery manufacturer — CATL — launched a new high-specific-energy battery.\u00a0 If used in a typical EV today, it would improve its range by over 80% with no increase in battery pack weight.\u00a0 It may also have applications in shipping and aviation.\u00a0 CATL call it a condensed battery — or at least they do in their English media release.\u00a0 It may sound less stupid in Chinese. <\/p>\r\n

CATL says their condensed battery stores up to half a kilowatt-hour of energy per kilogram.\u00a0 It’s unclear how much work the words “up to” do in the previous sentence.\u00a0 Selling batteries approaching 500 watt-hours of storage per kg isn’t that special and has been done before<\/a>. \u00a0The announcement is a potentially big deal because CATL promises to rapidly put them into mass production.\u00a0 While they haven’t committed to it, they say they will likely start this year.\u00a0 Because CATL isn’t all hat and no cattle, I think there’s a decent chance they’ll come through.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

With luck, multiple manufacturers will soon be mass-producing high-specific-energy batteries, resulting in rapid price falls and eliminating fossil fuel use from multiple forms of transportation.<\/p>\r\n

\"CATL

The CATL condensed battery cell.\u00a0 Note it’s not as large as it appears in this picture. (Image: CATL)<\/p><\/div>\r\n

What The Hell Is CATL?<\/h2>\r\n

CATL is big — really big.\u00a0 If you thought companies like Samsung made a lot of batteries, that’s just peanuts compared to CATL.\u00a0 Last year they produced around 34% of all new lithium battery capacity.\u00a0 This makes them the world’s largest producer by a ridiculous margin, as their production is over twice that of LG Energy in second place.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

Unfortunately, their name’s pronounced Cee-Ay-Tee-eL and not “cattle”.\u00a0 I’d always hoped to one day meet their CEO and CTO, and they would turn out to be these two guys…<\/p>\r\n

\"Minotaur

Image Credit:\u00a0 Still from the movie “Gods of Egypt”.\u00a0 Note this movie is not suitable for children — or anyone else.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

…but that’s not likely to be the case.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The letters of their name stand for Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited.\u00a0 But I don’t care. \u00a0I will pronounce their name as “cattle” anyway because it’s like moo-sic to my ears.<\/p>\r\n

If you guessed CATL is a Chinese company, you’re spot on.\u00a0 China was the one large country that listened to me and built the solar and battery manufacturing capacity the world needs to get off fossil fuels.\u00a0 Well… to tell the truth, they probably didn’t listen to me and just worked it out themselves.\u00a0 After all, it’s not as though China has been spying on me.<\/p>\r\n

CATL’s headquarters are in Ningde City<\/a> in Fujian Province<\/a>.\u00a0 The region is famous for having many She-people<\/a>, half of whom are men.\u00a0 I’d give you CATL’s phone number, but I’m scared you’d do something stupid like ring them up and moo at them.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

\"Bull

Bull or a robot driving a crab car? You decide!<\/p><\/div>\r\n

Specific Energy NOT Energy Density!<\/h2>\r\n

CATL says their new battery has a high energy density<\/a>, but they actually mean high specific energy<\/a>.\u00a0 Energy density is how many kilowatt-hours (kWh) of energy it has per litre.\u00a0 Specific energy is how many kWh it has per kg.\u00a0 But we can forgive CATL for this as they are a Chinese company, and difficulties with translation are inevitable.\u00a0 As for all the other companies that don’t have this excuse but make the same mistake — I will never forgive you!<\/p>\r\n

How Does It Work?<\/h2>\r\n

So how did CATL make their condensed battery have such a high specific energy?\u00a0 I have no idea.\u00a0 But looking at their media release<\/a>, I see it says…<\/p>\r\n

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“CATL’s condensed battery leverages highly conductive biomimetic condensed state electrolytes to construct a micron-level self adaptive net structure that can adjust the interactive forces among the chains, thus improving the conductive performance of the cells…”<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

I’m a bit thick, so I asked GPT-4 to “explain it to me like I’m an 8-year old”:<\/p>\r\n

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Okay, imagine you have a toy car that needs batteries to run. CATL is a company that makes special batteries to help the toy car go faster and last longer. These batteries use a special material, kind of like a magical playdough, that copies how things work in nature.<\/p>\r\n

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This magical playdough has tiny, super-thin nets inside, like a spider web. These nets can change how they stick together, making it easier for electricity to flow through them. This helps the battery give more power to the toy car, making it faster and last longer before you need to charge it again!<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

Oh, well, when you put it like that, it’s obvious.\u00a0 I can’t believe I didn’t see that myself right away!\u00a0 In fact, it sounds very similar to how Australia’s vegemite powered batteries<\/a> work.<\/p>\r\n

1,000km EV<\/h2>\r\n

Provided CATL actually can mass produce condensed batteries that store half a kWh per kg, you could — technically at least — get 1,000km of range from a current electric car without increasing the weight of its battery pack.<\/p>\r\n

For now, Tesla Motors is the world’s largest EV company<\/a>.\u00a0 Their Tesla Model 3 Long Range EV has a range of 602km according to Tesla’s Australian site.\u00a0 It uses 2170 battery cells with a specific energy of 0.269kWh per kg<\/a>.\u00a0 If they were replaced with CATL condensed cells with 0.5kWh per kg it would increase its range by 86% to 1,119km.\u00a0 Unfortunately, you’re unlikely to get that far, as the ranges Tesla gives aren’t what Australians achieve in real life<\/a>.\u00a0 But provided you drove carefully, I suppose you could get 1,000km.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

There’s already an EV that will be sold in China this year with CATL batteries with a range of over 1,000km.\u00a0 But they aren’t the new condensed batteries.\u00a0 Instead, it uses CATL’s quilin batteries<\/a>, which are pronounced more like “chillin’<\/a>” and translates as “mutant unicorn<\/a>“.\u00a0 In Japan, it also means Giraffe and beer.<\/p>\r\n

\"Kirin

Regardless of how thirsty you are, beware!\u00a0 Besides being a beer, this could also be a battery cell, a freaky mutant unicorn, or a giraffe.<\/p><\/div>\r\n

It’s a limited edition of 1,000 Zeekr 001 EVs<\/a> that supposedly can travel 1,032 km with a 140kWh battery pack.\u00a0 But that range isn’t realistic either.<\/p>\r\n

Despite rampant dishonesty in giving real-life EV ranges, it’s clear that with CATL condensed batteries, you can have an EV with a 1,000km range under realistic driving conditions if you want.\u00a0 Whether that makes sense compared to paying less for a vehicle with a lower range is another matter.<\/p>\r\n

The Sky Is Not the Limit<\/h2>\r\n

CATL says its condensed batteries can also be used for shipping and aviation.\u00a0 While some scoff at the words “electric flight”, it’s not as crazy as it may sound, particularly over shorter distances.<\/p>\r\n

\"Electric

But you probably want to start with a smaller plane for your electric aircrafts.\u00a0 (Image: CATL.\u00a0 Spelling error: CATL.)<\/p><\/div>\r\n

Because boats float rather than fly, they can get much more range from batteries than planes.\u00a0 But a cargo ship will still need a darn big battery pack to cross an ocean.<\/p>\r\n

It Could Be Cheap — In The Future<\/h2>\r\n

Hopefully, CATL will start mass-producing condensed batteries this year.\u00a0 Then we’ll be able to see how much they charge for them and get an idea of how long they’ll last.\u00a0 As CATL says they plan to use them in various applications, including cars, I expect them to be as reliable, or better, than cells typically used today.\u00a0 While reliable high-specific-energy battery cells will command a premium price initially, competition will lower prices and, over time, could become cheaper than current batteries.\u00a0 This is because high-specific-energy cells use less material per kWh of energy storage and so are potentially cheaper to make.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

The price reductions could happen very quickly.\u00a0 Batteries took a break from falling in price last year, but with costs of raw materials declining, I’m expecting significant battery price falls over the next few years.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have CATL Won The Battle For High Specific Energy? 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