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Lithium iron phosphate batteries are a type of lithium ion battery that does not require nickel or cobalt. They're already used in many electric vehicles includ
by philipkglass 5y ago
Lithium iron phosphate batteries are a type of lithium ion battery that does not require nickel or cobalt. They're already used in many electric vehicles including standard-range Tesla vehicles. They're also a preferred choice for grid scale storage because the modestly lower energy density of LFP chemistry doesn't matter for a battery that sits in one place for years.
- outworlder 5y agoHow are they tying up the cells together? That's usually done with Nickel bars.
- bryanlarsen 5y agoNickel plated copper. Doesn't help much, since copper is one of the few things more expensive than nickel...
- philipkglass 5y agoI'm not aware of a time when copper was more expensive than nickel. It wasn't within the last 25 years: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/copper https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/copper https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/nickel https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/nickel