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Toshiba developed a lithium battery that does not use cobalt and can charge 80% in 5 minutes. - Ev-riders (ev-riders.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

While it is relatively expensive compared to iron, we actually use 95% of all titanium mined for white paint since titanium dioxide is really white.

So if we're able to put almost all titanium production into white paint, I think we could take some of that capacity and put it towards batteries.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Yeah a friend told me something like that but he forgot to compute how much energy is needed for silicon and how much for titanium. Like aluminium is one of the most used materials but it still is a massive use of energy to refine it from bauxite or what-you-have.

Don't know, I'd say the mainstream is trying to go grapheme and or silicon and these dudes are trying different stuff for the sake of doing it differently.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

It could be white batteries to make the most use of it ☝️