This graphite-free battery could break China’s grip on the EV supply chain
Pure Lithium says a laboratory cell with no graphite anode completed 9,315 charge and discharge cycles with almost no capacity loss, a result no third party has validated. The EU wants to process 40% of its own strategic raw materials by 2030 and cap any single country at 65%, while China processes more than 90% of the world’s graphite.
A Chicago startup says its battery ran 9,315 charge and discharge cycles with almost no capacity loss. Pure Lithium announced the result on 27 August. There is no graphite in the cell.
The caveats are large and belong first. It is a laboratory cell, no third party has validated the figure, and the energy density of the tested cell has not been disclosed, InsideEVs reported.
What the company removed is the anode material. Instead of graphite it deposits lithium metal straight onto a copper current collector, forming the anode during...
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