Last year the Nobel Prize in chemistry went to the inventors of the Li-ion battery. A fantastic invention, but it took 20 years from idea to product - we need to be able to do it in a tenth of that time if we are to have sustainable batteries ready for the green transition,” says Tejs Vegge, professor at DTU Energy and head of BIG- MAP.
This makes it possible to mould it into a paper-thin layer inside the battery. The potential of the milky-white, paper-thin material based on potassium silicate is huge. It is an inexpensive, eco-friendly material that can be extracted from silicates, which cover over 90 per cent of the Earth’s surface.
“Batteries so far have been produced mainly on coal power,” says Thor. That is why this factory is in the north of Sweden where there is plenty of renewable electricity, including hydropower. The emissions per battery made here are 70 per cent lower than those made in China, says Thor, and Northvolt's aim is to get that figure to 90 per cent.
As more and more people switch to electric cars, we need to develop a new generation of lithium-free batteries, which are at least as efficient, but more eco-friendly and cheaper to produce. This requires new materials for the battery’s main components; anode, cathode, and electrolyte, as well as developing new battery designs.
Northvolt's efforts to make battery production greener also include buying raw materials from nearby mines where possible and a plan to use electric trucks to ferry materials to and from a harbour.
The lithium-ion batteries we use today took over 20 years to develop, and we’re still developing them. Secondly, we need to develop new ways of producing and sealing the batteries so the ultra-thin material layers in the battery cell do not break and have continuous contact in order to work.
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