China’s top battery maker will make cheaper next generation low cobalt batteries

China’s largest lithium battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd (CATL) plans to begin producing in 2019 next-generation nickel-rich batteries, which are cheaper to make and have longer life-spans.

Cobalt stabilizes and extends the life of lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. Cobalt prices more than doubled in 2017 and peaked at a record high of $95,250 a tonne in March, 2018.

South Korea’s LG Chem and SK Innovation have said they are working on producing the same type of battery. The CATL NCM 811 battery has 80 percent nickel, 10 percent cobalt and 10 percent manganese.

CATL currently makes NCM 523 batteries with 50 percent nickel, 20 percent cobalt and 30 percent manganese.

30 thoughts on “China’s top battery maker will make cheaper next generation low cobalt batteries”

  1. I bought a lithium battery after tearing up my shoulder lifting & twisting around with a conventional heavy marine battery. So my question is this: Will the nickel battery end up being heavier than lithium battery?

  2. I bought a lithium battery after tearing up my shoulder lifting & twisting around with a conventional heavy marine battery. So my question is this: Will the nickel battery end up being heavier than lithium battery?

  3. I wonder what that solid power diagram has to do with the article. And what that mysterious “conversion cathode” is.

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  5. They are claiming that the battery they’ll release next year will have about 230 Wh/kg, which is about Li battery levels of weight (for the same capacity). Then, they claim, their tech should let them halve the weight from there in a short period of development. They say. Allegedly.

  6. I wonder what that solid power diagram has to do with the article. And what that mysterious conversion cathode”” is.”””

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  8. They are claiming that the battery they’ll release next year will have about 230 Wh/kg which is about Li battery levels of weight (for the same capacity).Then they claim their tech should let them halve the weight from there in a short period of development. They say. Allegedly.

  9. The going from 255 Wh/kg to 495 Wh/kg in the diagram is the doubling I was referring to. But yes, whether “they” said it would double depends on whether the word “they” refers to the Chinese or the Koreans.

  10. There’s no mention of solid electrolyte or solid state anywhere. So this has virtually nothing to do with it, besides the fact that the SolidPower battery also happens to use an NCM811 cathode. “Then, they claim, their tech should let them halve the weight from there in a short period of development. They say. Allegedly.” I don’t see the doubling mentioned anywhere.

  11. The article is about CATL releasing their new NCM811 battery. The solid power diagram is showing the various makeups of the current NCM 811 battery and how they plan to develop these battery types in the future to be lighter for the same energy. Hence, the first battery in the diagram is the one mentioned in the article.

  12. The going from 255 Wh/kg to 495 Wh/kg in the diagram is the doubling I was referring to. But yes whether they”” said it would double depends on whether the word “”””they”””” refers to the Chinese or the Koreans.”””

  13. There’s no mention of solid electrolyte or solid state anywhere. So this has virtually nothing to do with it besides the fact that the SolidPower battery also happens to use an NCM811 cathode.Then” they claim” their tech should let them halve the weight from there in a short period of development. They say. Allegedly.””I don’t see the doubling mentioned anywhere.”””

  14. The article is about CATL releasing their new NCM811 battery. The solid power diagram is showing the various makeups of the current NCM 811 battery and how they plan to develop these battery types in the future to be lighter for the same energy.Hence the first battery in the diagram is the one mentioned in the article.

  15. The going from 255 Wh/kg to 495 Wh/kg in the diagram is the doubling I was referring to.

    But yes, whether “they” said it would double depends on whether the word “they” refers to the Chinese or the Koreans.

  16. There’s no mention of solid electrolyte or solid state anywhere. So this has virtually nothing to do with it, besides the fact that the SolidPower battery also happens to use an NCM811 cathode.

    “Then, they claim, their tech should let them halve the weight from there in a short period of development. They say. Allegedly.”

    I don’t see the doubling mentioned anywhere.

  17. The article is about CATL releasing their new NCM811 battery. The solid power diagram is showing the various makeups of the current NCM 811 battery and how they plan to develop these battery types in the future to be lighter for the same energy.

    Hence, the first battery in the diagram is the one mentioned in the article.

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  19. They are claiming that the battery they’ll release next year will have about 230 Wh/kg, which is about Li battery levels of weight (for the same capacity).

    Then, they claim, their tech should let them halve the weight from there in a short period of development. They say. Allegedly.

  20. I bought a lithium battery after tearing up my shoulder lifting & twisting around with a conventional heavy marine battery. So my question is this: Will the nickel battery end up being heavier than lithium battery?

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