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Daimler is working on advanced, 'organic' electric vehicle (EV)
battery technology, according to an Autocar report. The
company describes the technology as 'very promising' but it will be
at least 15 years before to is viable for series production in cars
available to consumers. Andreas Hintennach, Mercedes' senior
manager of battery research, said, "It's a very promising
technology. I've already seen it working in laboratories, where the
results look really good, but we don't see that it's close to being
used in production technology for now. It's around 15-20 years
away."
Significance: Daimler has already debuted the
technology in concept form in the Mercedes-Benz Vision AVTR sport
utility vehicle (SUV). These 'organic' battery chemistries use
graphene-based organic cell chemistry. Graphene is a very flexible
and highly conductive new material that was developed originally at
Manchester University in the United Kingdom and which has an
enormous number of potential applications. This new and still
highly experimental form of battery chemistry dos not use any rare
earths or metals, and therefore means that batteries can actually
be 'composted' and are entirely recyclable. It also gets rid of the
need to use rare earth materials like lithium and cobalt, which
have significant issues with ethical sourcing and supply.
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