GM and Ford Tease Game Change LMR EV batteries

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GENERAL MOTORS and Ford Motor Company is more than the moon around the ev rich in lehium rich in lehium, in which General Motors escalate “a jump to the front that will provide EVS with an attractive and low -cost mix.” Everyone is also waiting for a well -known automotive maker in the United States, Tesla, to join LMR EV batteries … awaiting …

New LMR EV batteries are coming, in the end …

Mangity has turned on the Cleantechnica screen, but do not confuse it with magnesium. Magnesium is a similar but very different element, and it is also under exploration for use in EV batteries (see more magnesium background here).

Mangity is the fifth most abundant element on the ground, making it a cheap and widely available alternative to other most expensive battery materials, if only researchers can know how to increase the percentage of manganese without the performance of crimes or age.

On the cost side, one of the interesting developments arose about eight months ago, when the research team located in the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has reported a high level of performance on the monichens -based cathode designed with large particles.

“Mengeneys -based materials have tremendous potential to become a generation of the next generation of lithium ion because they are abundant in the ground, low -cost and stable. Here we explain how the kathyn of manganese can be used to get a unique nanoparticles in nature.

The use of larger molecules – about 1000 times larger – was a major division with previous assumptions about the size of the particles needed for batteries that spread turbulent rock salts (DRX).

“Previous research suggested that to perform a good performance, DRX materials should have reached nanoparticles in the energy thick process. But the new study found that manganese -based cathode can actually excel with particles of about 1,000 times than expected,” the researchers pointed out, pointed out

The problem has been solved … but where is the Waldou?

Meanwhile, Ford and Granur Motors are not waiting for dust to settle. Ford disturbed the coming LMR battery last month, as mentioned widely in car media, and GM followed this week.

If you are wondering where the Tesla is on the theme of LMR EV batteries, this is not a mystery. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, presented the idea of ​​high content batteries five years ago, during the prominent “battery day” event of his company.

“On the Battery Day in Tesla 2020, Musk said that EV batteries in Tesla will contain a third of the manganese one third,” Cleantechnica said on September 9 of 2020.

“It is relatively easy to do the 2/3 nickel, 1/3 manganese, which will allow us to make the cell size 50 % with the same amount of nickel,” Musk said during this event.

What, that was five years ago, and where is Elon now? This is also not a mystery. Last October, Musk was in Washington, DC, meeting with the governor of the Qatari Central Bank and the head of the Investment Authority in Qatar, Sheikh Bandar bin Mohammed bin Soud Al Thani. “During the meeting, they reviewed the major global financial and investment developments,” the English -based news organization in Qatar on October 22 told the news organization in Qatar on October 22.

The meeting of the capital occurred just two weeks before the start of the election day results for the year 2024, prompting the criminal convicted Donald Trump to the White House with huge financial assistance from Musk, who returned to Washington a few months after Trump’s request to dismantle the United States government by bricks.

This week, Musk Middle East visits the Middle East personally as part of the president’s entourage, and is said to be planning to appear at the Economic Forum in Qatar 2025 on May 20 in a direct virtual interview.

As a coincidence or not, the government of Qatar, President Trump, presented a “gift” of a luxury plane of $ 400 million to replace the official presidential aircraft of the official air force. Although security experts note that American taxpayers will be on a hook for millions of others in order to install the necessary equipment.

GM’s Excellent LMR EV Battery Adventure

If you have any ideas about these events, drop a note on the subject of the comment. The last thing we have heard, Tesla has patents in the LMR EV batteries, but so far no official word has decreased regarding production plans to Paltofit.

General Motors, on the other hand, cannot say enough about the new LMR EV batteries, loudly and in public places.

“The bottom line: LMR will allow General Motors to offer EVS with a distinct group at a much lower cost,” General Motors Director in Advanced Battery Cell Engineering, Koshal Narhayanaswami, in General Motors on May 13.

“The researchers have been studying LMR technology since the 1990s, which is attracted by the possibility of a new category of electric car batteries that offer a wonderful collection and reasonable prices,” explained Naayanaswamy. He also pointed out that General Motors’ work on technology dates back to about 10 years with its LG Energy Solution. The research and development voltage began in 2015 and got Steam around 2020.

If you are wondering why General Motors is looking for the best thing that exceeds the NMCA low -Manage batteries, this is a good question. The idea in the short term is to spread the brown battery structure to fill more than 400 miles of the range in the large SUV or a pickup truck, while large dollars fly of the cost of high nickel NMCA packages.

All that is equal in terms of the total cost of EV, the PickAP like the GM from the Chevrolet Silverdo EV TRUCK (492 miles for a full charge) will be accessible to everyone for more audiences who buy cars when riding on LMR batteries.

The countdown to the year 2028 for EV batteries in the future

GM/LG collaborators formulated EV batteries with 35 % nickel and 65 % manganese. In contrast, a high -nickel nickel battery consists of Nickel 85 % and only 10 % manganese, with cobalt contributes to the remaining 5 %.

In addition to noting that manganese is more abundant and less expensive than nickel or cobalt, naayanaswamy also notes that manganese gives the manufacture of rectangular privatical cells, which are larger than the structure of the type of bag usually used for nickel cells.

Since LMR EV batteries are larger, they also reduce the amount of connective and structural materials that link the battery package together, which increases the costs of the cut. GM, which is estimated to save the cost by 75 % on the components of the battery unit and 50 % on the total components of the package.

“General Motors estimates that our new LMR cells will get a 33 % energy density at a similar cost from LFP, or Lithium iron phosphate, which is another famous low -cost EV battery chemistry,” Narayanaswamy also notes.

Hold your hats. While MUSK wandered around Qatar, Marie Para, CEO of General Motors, was in her store. Its company pledged to be “the first automobile manufacturer to publish LMR batteries in EVS”, and this may happen if Ford won the punch.

If things go according to the plan, pre -production will start in the fall of 2027, with full production of follow -up in 2028.

Image (Construction): LMR EV batteries are flying costs on materials and other battery components, while performing them well and continues as long as high -price highly high nickel batteries (with the permission of General Motors).