Sion Power: "Our Licerion cells offer 0,42 kWh / kg." That's 40 percent better than the best Li-ion batteries today!
US-based Sion Power - not to be confused with the photovoltaic-clad Sion car built by Sono Motors - boasts of creating a new element called the Licerion. Thanks to the lithium anode (Li-metal), they should provide an energy density of 0,42 kWh/kg.
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Sion Power tried to create stable lithium-sulfur (Li-S) cells for several years, but ultimately abandoned this technology and began developing lithium metal cells. We learned from an industry expert that this is no exception, because many companies have burned out badly trying to combine lithium with sulfur ...
Sion Power's new lithium metal cells, marketed as Licerion, have a nickel-rich cathode (possibly NCM or NCA) and a proprietary "ultra-thin anode" made of lithium metal. Thanks to this technology, it has been possible to achieve a higher energy density than the best lithium-ion cells available on the market. Licerion offers 0,7 kWh / lthen 0,42 kWh / kg "Scaled to commercial design" (whatever that last time means; source code).
The parameters of the best CATL Li-ion batteries available today are as follows: 0,7 kWh / l (the same) and 0,3 kWh / kg (smaller).
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It means that electric car batteryin which the CATL cell samples will be replaced with Licerion cells of the same mass will offer 40 percent more coverage... Thus, the Renault Twingo ZE battery that we recently liked could offer 210-220 kilometers instead of the current 150 kilometers of real range:
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The manufacturer boasts that the battery retains up to 70 percent of its capacity during the first 850 cycles. Thus, if it were used in the aforementioned Renault Twingo, its power would fall below the permissible limit at a range of about 180 kilometers. It's not that much - the car manufacturer will have to think about increasing the charge of the batteries in order to increase the range between charges.
Lyserion cells must be ready for use. Sion Power would like to license it for automotive applications and focus on, among other things, the vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) segment.
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