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... cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite...
by metalliqaz 1y ago
... cobalt, nickel, manganese, graphite...
- ziga 1y agoGrid-scale storage (and increasingly EVs) use lithium-iron-phosphate battery cells, which don't require cobalt/nickel/manganese.
- kragen 1y agoNone of those are either rare earth metals or especially rare, graphite isn't a metal at all, and lithium iron phosphate batteries contain neither nickel nor manganese.
- kragen 1y agoThis should say, "neither cobalt nor manganese". They do contain nickel.
- epistasis 1y agoI don't think there's any nickel, and Wikipedia agrees, but I always love a correction: "LFP contains neither nickel[35] nor cobalt, both of which are supply-constrained and expensive. " [35] pdf https://nickelinstitute.org/media/1987/nickel_battery_infographic-final2.pdf https://nickelinstitute.org/media/1987/nickel_battery_infogr...
- kragen 1y agoI'm an idiot, you're right.
- zekrioca 1y agoOkay, next periodical table elements...