Game-Changing Tesla Battery Could DOUBLE Your EV’s Lifespan!
This is officially without doubt the biggest news from Tesla this year. I mean what Tesla have just revealed and it’s officially being revealed by Tesla is remarkable. I can’t believe people aren’t talking about this. This is potentially one of I’d say it’s one of Tesla’s top three greatest innovations in their history. And it’s it’s I don’t know. It’s like weird that everyone’s just staying silent on it. YouTube’s new algorithm means that you’re often not getting all of our videos in your feed. There’s 7,500. I’m pretty sure you’re probably not seeing a lot of them. In the description, there is a link to our newsletter. Click on that and you can get an update every day of all the latest news in the electric car industry. Tesla just quietly revealed they have brand new nickelbased batteries which will go into their future cars very soon. What is the difference between Tesla’s new batteries and their pre well their current batteries today? There’s actually a pretty major difference and Lars Moravi from Tesla has revealed why Tesla’s new vehicles with these new batteries will have a pretty distinct advantage over today’s Teslas on the road. Hello my friends, welcome to the channel. I’m Sam Evans. for watching the electric Viking. If you’d like to become a YouTube member of the channel, that’d be great. It helps support the mission, which is to get more people in electric cars. I’ll put a link in the description below to our YouTube member page. Tesla has a new lithium battery. It will increase longevity significantly and allow a big change to the way users operate their cars. One of the biggest news pieces from we’ve seen from Tesla this week and in fact this year is these new batteries. I’m surprised we haven’t heard more about this. Um yeah, very very strange that some of the mainstream websites, particularly mainstream EV sites, have chosen to not talk about it. Anyhow, Tesla’s VP of vehicle engineering, Lars Morabi, during an interview on Jay Leno’s garage revealed that Tesla’s nextg nickelbased battery technology is much more durable than its existing technology and as a result, Tesla will suggest charging to the previous recommendation of 90% instead of today’s 80%. Tesla like all car manufacturers says if you don’t have a lithiumion phosphate battery in your car then the best thing to do what you should do is the recommendation just charge your battery to 80% daily. If you want to go on a long drive on the weekend you know go on a road trip yeah charge to 100% in those instances but for daily use charge to 80%. And like I said Tesla is not alone in this instance. pretty much every manufacturer using NMC batteries or turnary batteries of some sort. They suggest the same thing. Now, I’m intrigued by this. I’m going to tell you why in a minute because I think there’s more to this story than what’s been revealed by Tesla. And I’ll tell you what that is. But I should mention that not a Tesla app says this isn’t just a minor tweak. It’s the result of a material science breakthrough that gives Tesla’s long range and performance batteries almost the same everyday convenience as their lithiumion phosphate counterparts. Now, I think they could be lithium phosphate, but a hybrid version. I’ll get to that in a minute. A recently published patent application, US 20243, bunch of numbers, provides a look at the science behind this improvement, revealing how Tesla’s updated techniques create a more resilient, longerlasting battery cathode. It’s the cathode that’s been changed. To understand the importance of this change, says not a Tesla app, one must fi first understand the two distinct battery lineups that Tesla have. Tesla have lithiumion phosphate batteries in a lot of their cars worldwide. They used to have that op them as an option in their cars in the United States, but they don’t anymore because of the tariffs on Chinese batteries. So now Tesla just use NMC batteries in the US and that’s all you that’s the only choice you have. But outside of the US, for all of Tesla’s standard range cars, so the cars made in Germany and the cars made in China, which are shipped all around the world, the standard range versions, the most popular version has a lithium phosphate battery. And yeah, you can charge them to 100% every day. Uh there’s no change to really your battery degradation or battery life by doing that. So that is one advantage to them. However, they do currently require more precise temperature gradients to work better. If the temperature is too hot or too cold, lithium phosphate batteries can sometimes struggle, as you could probably have seen with various stories in the media. Now, it’s true that newer generation batteries that have been revealed over the last 12 months in China, various lithium phosphate technologies have worked out a way to get around that. It’s no longer an issue for them, but those batteries aren’t really in most cars yet. They will be in the future, but they’re not yet. Nickelbased NMC or NCAA batteries or NMCA batteries are the high performance marathon runners. They have higher energy density than lithium phosphate and that is an advantage in terms of being able to provide more range for the same battery size. They’re also lighter as well. Their energy density alongside their peak power output is good, but the I think the lighter weight also helps improve efficiency. It allows for longer range and quicker acceleration that you’ll find in Tesla’s performance models, the longrange version and the performance models. The trade-off for this performance though is the recommendation to charge to only 80% daily. Personally, I don’t listen to these recommendations cuz I think if you look at the studies, it doesn’t make much difference if you charge 80% or not. And I’m talking massive studies where they’ve looked at thousands and thousands of cars over long periods of time. and people that charge their cars to over 80% it didn’t really make any difference. That’s just quietly between you and me. Anyhow, this created a convenience gap in the minds of many owners who think that they shouldn’t charge above 80%. L Morabi says though that Tesla has closed the gap between lithium phosphate and nickelbased batteries by half, making their high performance batteries almost as userfriendly as their standard range lithium phosphate counterparts, but without any of the drawbacks. So what is this secret source? Well, I don’t think LZ is telling the full the full story here. And I did a video on this because actually the truth is Tesla signed a deal with LG Energy Solutions who make Tesla’s batteries in well many places around the world for a new type of battery which is actually a lithiumion phosphate battery doped with nickel and it has the energy density of nickelbased nonLFP batteries. So nickelbased NMC batteries, but the advantage of lithium phosphate and the price advantage as well. They’re much cheaper to manufacture. Now I don’t know if LZ is being koi here and not telling us the full story, but he’s telling us, you know, at least something. He says Tesla’s managed to pull off this change by their patent titled doped cathode active materials and methods thereof. Anyway, this patent details a process for Tesla to improve the chemistry of their nickelbased batteries. This helps increase their performance and crucially their long-term longevity. Now, yes, if he’s really just saying it’s about this patent where all we’re going to do to change these new batteries to our nickelbased actual NMC batteries is just is use nickel in this way that they’re outlining here, then sure. These are not the batteries that I talked about in my video that were discovered. Well, why I discover them based on information revealed from Tesla. This could be a different concept. Anyway, this core innovation is doping, a material science technique in which small precise amounts of other metallic elements or dopants are mixed into the primary cathode material during manufacturing. Not a Tesla app says that this process helps address the primary drawback of many cathodes which of often experience a significant loss of charge capacity over repeated charge cycles. So after a couple of hundred thousand km um you see battery degradation in this part of the battery and that causes the the battery to have provide less range for the car. Tesla’s managed to increase the charge retention from 83% with its older cathodes to 91% with its newer doped cathodes. That’s a big change. 83 to 91%. According to the patent, the standard non-doped cell loses nearly 20% of the energy capacity over time. They don’t stipulate how long this is, but I’m assuming that it would be a fairly long time. In stark contrast, a cathode doped with a combination of four elements that Tesla are planning on using loses less than 5% of its capacity over the same period. So this this change in Tesla’s batteries is unquestionably one of the biggest game changers. I think it’s the biggest technological innovation in Tesla’s announced official battery tech we’ve ever seen because basically Tesla are saying you can charge the battery to 90% every day regularly and 100% when you need to but in addition to that your battery degradation even when you charge it to this higher level will be a fraction of what it is currently. They’re going from a battery that they say over time loses 20% of its energy density to only losing 5%. In other words, Tesra is basically saying, “Yeah, yeah, we’ve fixed energy density problems and capacity loss over time.” That is insane. Now, I don’t know how true this is and how accurate this is and how uh how this is going to really play out in the real world, but from what Tesla is saying, if they’ve gone from 20% battery degradation over time, we know Tesla batteries, but by the time they get to 20% battery degradation, they’ve normally been used for probably around about between 200,000 to 300,000 km, right? A long, in fact, sometimes it’s even a lot more than that. Sometimes we’re talking even 200,000 to 300,000 miles to hit 20%. If Tesla is saying that over 200,000 to 300 miles, you’re only going to see 5% battery degradation, then that is unbelievable. They’ve just discovered something that’s just gamechanging. No doubt about it. That’s a four-fold reduction, says it’s not a Tesla app, in degradation and exactly the key material science jump that Tesla needs to improve its battery technology in order to stand out among a really some really strong competition, particularly from China. This is a major engineering win and a shift to 90% charging is great, but the bigger change here is battery degradation over time. Tesla’s battery degradation is already very, very good. That’s true. The battery degradation is is excellent. So are other car manufacturers to be honest, but going from 20% degradation over a long period of time to only 5% is a truly remarkable achievement. And I think we’re going to see a situation where cars will just they’ll basically you you’ll say to yourself, you know what, I’ve had this car for 20 years. I’m sick of it. Or this car is 20 years old. It’s its suspension is is toast. Um you know, its technology, it seats are all worn, etc. But the battery is still good. and they’ll use the battery for energy storage for many different uses before they eventually decades down the track potentially need to actually recycle it. What are your thoughts? Thanks for watching. [Music]
🔋 Tesla is developing a new lithium battery that could double EV lifespan and allow safe charging up to 90% daily. This breakthrough could slash replacement costs and make Tesla EVs last far longer than rivals.
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