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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by samatman on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:01PM (#33395589)
> Also, a lithium-iron-phosphate battery is a lithium-ion battery, in that the electrolyte works by lithium ionic conduction. The appropriate contrast would be "lithium-nickel".

Correct, I want to point out that John Goodenough was responsible for the basic research which lead to all lithium-ion batteries.

I explicitly intended LiFePO to be included, and I hope for a variety of reasons that it's much more popular than cobalt-heavy formulas in ten years.

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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by ben_w on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:15PM (#33395720)
Only now do I realise that "Goodenough" is a real person's name, and neither a placeholder name nor a case of Emphasis Via Capital Letters:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_B._Goodenough

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Re:Gigafactories are recycling old EV batteries into new ones by scythe on Sunday October 30, 2022 @12:49PM (#33396060)
I have been interested in the technology from TexPower:

https://texpowerev.com/

They offer a lithium-nickel chemistry without cobalt. If it can be proven in practice, it would allow comparable density to the best car batteries in a scalable chemistry. The founder is a researcher at the University of Texas who wrote several papers on the chemistry:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/adma.2020027...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S240582972...

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/aenm.2...

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