Cool that Celina is developing cells. I loved listening to her talk. She has the vision w/o the hype. We need to explore all the paths to identify the precious few that ill advance BEVs. This technology could reduce the weight of GM's big battery trucks by about 1500 lbs. That goes right back into the payload and towing. That and up to about $10K less money.
I first heard Celine talk about 5 years ago, when she was running Tesla's (Panasonic's) battery manufacturing. I was very, very, impressed with her then, and I am still impressed with her now. Talk about someone that knows batteries and battery manufacturing from top to bottom. I also want to complement John on a fantastic interview. I sincerely hope this video gets a gazillion views so that more and more people can learn about the advancements in battery technology and figure out that our Electric Future is closer than ever.
because of the financial backing with military projects, i have a feeling they will make it. in the military there are applications where cycle life is not that important but the weight is (drones). this is an area where they already have their foot in the door. maybe similar to amprius technology where they bumped up the energy density with a silicon anode where they build a forest of nanoscale sizes "trees" to make room for lithium without the destructive expansion with every charging cycle.
because their cell is still in development and the scaling in production is still needed. automotive needs at least 1500 cycles and my guess is that lyten is in the area of 500 cycles - which is enough for many applications. theoretically even for automotive if one cycle gives you 700 real world kilometers. 500*700 = 350000 km
Are you going to interview Zeta Energy as well? (Booth 6030) They also seem to be further along then Lyten in their Sulfur battery, but an interview could verify it 🤔. Thanks
If lithium sulfur batteries work as claimed in this interview are as affordable as indicated and can get 2,000 cycles and are safe, this will be a major battery technology.
Since we're making predictions, Hades will freeze over before fusion is practical, and you won't live long enough to see solid state in auto production.
SSB are happening in lzbs. But expensive and dangerous to mass produce . Automotive will not use them massively. LFP is good enough if OEMs optimize their chassis around the pack. Fast charging is key to avoid carrying around large expensive packs for grocery store shopping....
@chryoko Yes, if and when SSBs are mass produced, VTOLs and small airplanes will be the primary customers due to cost/price, I believe. They certainly won't be used in economy cars. Perhaps they will eventually enter common use, but I won't be around to see it.
So she states that the cell is half the weight of a traditional cell, but does it have the same energy? Unfortunately no proper information about the gravimetrical energy density.
@@battousaihimura >450 Wh/kg is a battery that allows long distance battery powered flight. Let's see if they can achieve decent cycle life along with good charge/discharge characteristics.
At 1:07 if you pause the video you'll see a sample shown on the left. On the product shown the weight is 1.25kg and the capacity is 120WH that gives about 96WH per KG.
Is this anything like other industries where the price in the pre market phase is one third the price in the delivery phase while the performance is also less than described?
at the beginning you can sell it at a premium to porsche and ferrari to shape off some weight and still add a bit of range. that can refinance some of the investments a bit earlier or help to scale up faster. and the short range aviation industry pays well also. especially the military sector that is already one important cornerstone in your business. as you said, we live in exciting times. great stuff! it will make EVs so cheap. and it will make trucks like the F150 affordable and add quite some range. especially with heavy truck like that, it is difficult to compete with the old ICE versions when the application requires a long range. 20% more range and 20% less weight for the same price would be great already.
You could just have two packs. Tesla could already integrate and fit plenty. But with the performance delta NMC and LFP has it probably doesn't make much sense. For a track focused car some capacitor bank solution could make sense. Imagine being able to regen every corner in Nurburgring and not overheat the main pack.
I wonder if we'll eventually come to a place where automakers are using multi-chemistry packs where they can take the advantages of some chemistries having better cold weather performance for example, and use those as a last use bank while higher cycle life batteries take the brunt of the duty cycle. It would require more advanced management systems but I think that sounds like a worthwhile cost if you can get some nice advantages.
A nice story, perhaps it will work out but even Celina said they are still working on cycle life so this chemistry is far from a done deal at the moment.
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I enjoyed listening to this woman, GREAT interview. Still have lots of questions though. Are they to be made as a solid state format? Are they NON FLAMMABLE? What are their C rating, can they pump out & take in at HIGH rates? Looking forward to this tech and wish Lyten much success.
I hope that they can go up to 4880 cells. Half the weight and 40% savings sounds very, very appealing. Tesla Semi, CyberTruck, and the upcoming *CyberCab* could use the new chemistry. They stand a real chance if they are capable of the number of cycles.
Just that "slight" problem they have immolated over 100 people in China. Until they can DEMONSTRATE these cells will not EXPLOSIVELY immolate all occupants of a vehicle, this is a NON STARTER
@@danburkland How am I a snowflake? Just because you have your head so far up your ass you somehow missed the gazillion reports about the CTs unreliability. Grow up
So has there been a breakthrough in the design of the cathode structure for lithium-sulfur batteries? Can they already move out of the lab and into mass production?
If the form factor lives up to the hype. I see this as a perfect application to e-bikes and small mobility products. Even electric motorcycles have been held back by battery weight, range, and cost.
Hope this pans out. But actually producing a better battery is often tried with many failures. The great thing is we now have batteries that are good enough. We're just looking for better and better is better.
@@jasonneugebauer5310 Good enough is specific to an application. LFP batteries are good enough for almost all EV applications. Super-performance and extremely long range EVs will need a different chemistry.
theres an australian company who have been producing graphene in bulk cheaper than what it used to cost in the past, they have produced graphene batteries that can full charge about 5 mins compared to hours, and they are more energy dense than lithium, last longer, dont heatup like lithium, have a longer charge life than lithium, they have already sent samples to major battery companies around the world, not sure why there is very little info on this company
Just put it in the fireproof trash bin over there, next to all the other failed battery chemistries that were going to make EVs viable over the last 25 years.
@@MaticTheProto It's not how often they burn, it's how big and unextinguishable they burn. Are you enjoying wallowing in ignorance? No ICE car fire ever sank an auto transport ship. or took out tyhe entire parking structure of a South Korean apartment building displacing 100 families. No semi tractor truck closed the I80 freeway in California for 16 freakin' hours while it burned. A Tesla Semi did. And, they had to use aerial drops of fire retardant from a helicopter. EV owners and eco-weenies are the stupidest people on the planet.
So where does sulfur come from? Are there industrial processes where sulfur is a byproduct or waste material? Those sources could be a factor in the supply chain part of this.
The world is drowning in sulfur. The problem is that Li-S is a near explosive and was VERY briefly introduced in China where hundreds of people were killed by their buses' and cars catching on fire. Until they demonstrate this battery type will not explode into a giant fireball, and let ANYONE handle them trying to get them to burn, this is a non starter. Yea yea, they were talking cycle life, but that is NOT the problem.
Sulfur in form of sulfuric acid is one of the major feed stocks of the chemical industry, we make loads of it! Its extracted from fossil natural gas, so thats not great .
At least she is not saying they will ready next month. Still sounds like some aggressive timeliness for reaching market. CATL, BYD, and others are rapidly expanding. Would love e to see another strong competitor in the battery space. The more competition, the better it is for the consumer.
I am looking forward to her product being mass produce. Ahe knows what customers want. High energy density, lightweight and affordable. If you're able to nail all these 3 points, your product is flying off the shelves
If the USA government would stop throwing money into the pockets of the military industrial complex, there would be plenty of money to fully convert to renewable energy.
It took Tesla since battery day (2020?) to reach semi volume production of 4680, probably far from 100 MWH. And she says they will do 100 MWH next year from current 10 MWH? And the cycle life is unresolved?
Lithium-Sulfur is absolutely the future of batteries along with Solid State batteries. Sulfur can hold as much as 5 times more Lithium Ions that the best current chemistries using Nickel and Cobalt with 1/3 the weight. So a current 300 miles of range becomes as much as 1,500 miles. But even half that beats all current ICE ranges (so why on earth did he bring up hybrids with twice the parts to go wrong? Isn't 1,500 miles enough? Good of her to shut him down). And of course, the cost of Nickel and Cobalt is gone from the picture. So of course, Lyten is far from the only company working on them.
So many people don't understand how much range they really need. With rapid charging becoming very accessible hardly anyone needs more range than what they can drive between meals.
@@bobwallace9753 Correct. But the extra range is definitely needed when towing. And this shut up all those naysayers with the unprecedented ranges these will provide. Not only for the EV's, but also the extra storage capabilities on the battery megapacks at charging sites with solar which are springing up all over right now. They collect all the solar when EV's aren't charging on it.
@@junehanzawa5165 True. Some people need more range because they tow. But how many people tow something a long distance more than once every few years? How many people ever tow at all? If you tow but very seldom, rent something for that once every couple of years stuff. Right tool for the right job.
@@bobwallace9753 Regardless of your point being correct, if we want people to abandon ICE, the more range the better. Which is why EVERY company and battery maker in working on improving range and energy density. New technology only replaces old technology if it's better, not the same. So EV's have to beat ICE in range. And they will. By far.
@@junehanzawa5165 I understand your point. But ask yourself why people think they need as much or more range than they have with their ICEV. The general public is very undereducated about EVs. There is hard work being done to increase energy density. That's important because, assuming cost/kWh is about the same, a lighter battery has multiple advantages. But what is most likely to get people into EVs is lower sales prices. And a lower range EV is going to be a less expensive EV. If we had a good quality 250 mile range EV that sold for $25k which would be less than $20k after the federal subsidy, it would blow the market wide open. That would be a car that would pay for itself over its lifetime via fuel and maintenance savings. So you've got only a 250 mile range. Start your 500 mile drive day which you do twice a year with the full 250 and drive down to 10%. That's 225 miles. Stop for less than a half hour and charge to 80%. Drive down to 10% which would be 175 miles. That's 400 miles. One more short stop and you've driven 500 miles with a modest range EV. How many thousands of dollars would you be willing to spend to make that a one stop day rather than a two stop day? (A meal and a pee.)
Most likely not. A reasonable guess is that globally there are 100s of new technologies and variants being worked on by a somewhat smaller number of labs. That says we have a lot of research to do and a lot of room for improvement. In the event that this groups fails others may utilize some of its technology in their work. It is not unlike the path that lead to the airplane.
@@ronfarnsworth7074from a consumer level it’s all about cost and durability. There are lots of new exciting chemistries that have potential, but take a significant amount of time to study and then to scale.
does it beat the potential of aluminum graphene? how about some serious questions. other than weight and cost, what are the benefits. safety? power density? still lithium... seriously ask some questions. sounds like they still dont have the cycles problem worked out.
i guess they are in the area of 500 cycles. the graphene should prevent the sulphur to leave the cathode. i guess that is not perfect so far and some sulphur gets shuttles in the direction of the anode which destroys the battery a bit every charging cycle.
With smaller lithium cells like the model S the voltage drop is less across the larger amount of cells. The cells last longer. The larger the cell the lesser amount of cells in the cell pack and the greater the drop in voltage as they discharge and a shorter life span of the battery. We still do not see any new battery tech in production for cars. It may be 50 years before energy density of batteries is closer to kerosine or Jet fuel. Jet fuel is 37.54 Kilowatts per gallon. Let that sink in. 37 kilowatts in the size of a shoe box. So 4- shoe box batteries with equivalent power would be over 148 kilowatts or 27 shoe box size batteries just over 1 megawatt. 4 megawatts of power is required to get the Boeing 747 off the ground. 50 years. wait. See what happens. The future is NOT now. I need 4 megawatts in 1 shoe box battery to power my Iron heart. Total Heartbeats: Approximately 3 billion. Total Blood Pumped: Approximately 62 million gallons over a lifetime. Power consumption 4 megawatts. Decentralized energy (no GRID or mini GRIDs)will be common If a small powerful 1-2 megawatt batteries one day will hold massive energy. Science fiction? Nope! We are lazy humans stealing dirty OIL energy from The Carboniferous period. Plants. Plants that used solar energy. Every thing is and always was solar powered including all fossil fuels. Most 80% of the oxygen you breath is still created from a single cell(3.2 billion years old) that is not a plant. Not a Bacteria like Archaeans.
@stefanweilhartner4415 Oh yeah. Who makes these machines? Are they innovating? And the only way to make batteries is to pass parts through millions of dollars of furnace and drying equipment. Right.
I've been listening to "the XX% lighter and YY% cheaper battery that is comming in just a few years" narrative for over 20 years now. Still waiting for the breakthroughs that should have come in the 2010s. Practically all carmakers promised some "unique" battery technology in their cars by 2025, but I've seen nothing yet. The only actual technology that came out of all these years of research is the cheaper LFP, and while it is great in terms of price, safety and charging cycles it offers lower energy density than lithium-ion.
@ 1:35 , this woman is slipping, sliding, and slick. She talks in generality, beats around the bush, and obfuscate the drawbacks of her LiS battery. Fact: her LiS battery is not ready for mass production, sales, or adoption. In the pioneer days there were snake oil salesmen. Today, we have snake oil salesmen selling Lithium ion batteries.
Information are a bit contradictory to each other. 40% cheaper but could scale up only non-automotive in this decades, does it missing opportunities? Can’t be automotive “cycle” required yet? And not good for hybrid (10-20 years life span expectancy) which means cheap but have to replace regularly = high maintenance cost. Not talking about thermal run away. Claiming is useless but specific testing on its formula is needed. High energy density have potential high chance on fire issue. Most important is very slow scale up plan means a lot of unspoken issue!
I wouldnt work for her, but Lytens engineering and technology is good. The only issue is cyle time, and we need to know if the failure is due to the sulphur pathway. Why is she bad? Too much I in her commentary. Lyten is a we. She doth assume much, a narcissistic characteristic.
Ths batteries will in future make great impression. But complete EVs driven with them will not. I think that "no produced complete EVs driven with best in world batteries " will be better -( they do not weight at all, charging is 100% no problem, people no need to build and use additional hughe energy plants, grid, and build home charging installations , they do not set anything on fire . In emergency evacuation like flooding "no posessed EVs" are equaly as good as aexisting EVs except that "not posessed" in emergency can be left home with no worry). .
Why would a disposable battery company make a battery that causes them to buy less? Duracell and Energizer are greatly responsible for how people believe batteries are and will be.
@2cartalkers likely buy why would you improve it if you get all the sales anyways. Maybe. Maybe they were just too stupid. But they dominated small battery sales for decades. Guess it makes sense. GM crushed all the EV1's. Why?
Yes more pie in the sky; no discussion of potential negatives - what do they cost? What is the lifespan? Are they even more fire prone? when will this be in mass production?Just like all these other chemistries selenium; graphene, silicon, no one has commitments and hard answers. Compare this to the 1980s micro processor race - are you going to invest billions in fabrication if the competition has a better product coming in 6 months? No. If there becomes a list of various players then you have a major split up of the market and chaos. You already have Chaos in China with over 90 remaining 100% BEV makers; all going bankrupt.
These batteries don't have the same metalic oxides that cause lithium ion batteries to be so flammable. The design of these batteries makes them resistant to catching on fire.
@@terrysparrow2180 By "these batteries" are you meaning these Sulfer batteries which aren't in any sort of significant production or battery farm batteries that are in use today? th-cam.com/video/SaH9sqJUn_4/w-d-xo.html This fire in San Diego burnt for 6 days.
Cool that Celina is developing cells. I loved listening to her talk. She has the vision w/o the hype. We need to explore all the paths to identify the precious few that ill advance BEVs. This technology could reduce the weight of GM's big battery trucks by about 1500 lbs. That goes right back into the payload and towing. That and up to about $10K less money.
I first heard Celine talk about 5 years ago, when she was running Tesla's (Panasonic's) battery manufacturing. I was very, very, impressed with her then, and I am still impressed with her now. Talk about someone that knows batteries and battery manufacturing from top to bottom.
I also want to complement John on a fantastic interview. I sincerely hope this video gets a gazillion views so that more and more people can learn about the advancements in battery technology and figure out that our Electric Future is closer than ever.
This is a great interview. I wish this company great success. I think they will make it.
because of the financial backing with military projects, i have a feeling they will make it. in the military there are applications where cycle life is not that important but the weight is (drones). this is an area where they already have their foot in the door.
maybe similar to amprius technology where they bumped up the energy density with a silicon anode where they build a forest of nanoscale sizes "trees" to make room for lithium without the destructive expansion with every charging cycle.
@@stefanweilhartner4415very good reply. Thank you.
Love the straight talk. Yes there are hurdles and Celina talked right to them. These new batteries still sound like they have a lot of potential.
Sounds like it's a lot further out than 2027
because their cell is still in development and the scaling in production is still needed.
automotive needs at least 1500 cycles and my guess is that lyten is in the area of 500 cycles - which is enough for many applications. theoretically even for automotive if one cycle gives you 700 real world kilometers. 500*700 = 350000 km
@@stefanweilhartner4415I think if their battery is as cheap as claimed then replacing it with a new one might be feasible.
It may also never come out, just like happened to many battery technologies before.
Are you going to interview Zeta Energy as well? (Booth 6030) They also seem to be further along then Lyten in their Sulfur battery, but an interview could verify it 🤔. Thanks
Great interview. So exciting to see batteries evolving. Thanks.
Just remember, this is only the beginning of the battery technology advancements! The future looks great for electric power!
Batteries have been advancing for thousands of years.
If lithium sulfur batteries work as claimed in this interview are as affordable as indicated and can get 2,000 cycles and are safe, this will be a major battery technology.
Should be here at about the same time as solid-state batteries, and fusion power.
Commercial Solid state in cars ETA 2-3 years away from CATL, BYD or Panasonic. Fusion 20 to 50 years.
Since we're making predictions, Hades will freeze over before fusion is practical, and you won't live long enough to see solid state in auto production.
I don't think fusion will be feasible within my lifetime. Maybe a few more generations down
SSB are happening in lzbs. But expensive and dangerous to mass produce . Automotive will not use them massively. LFP is good enough if OEMs optimize their chassis around the pack. Fast charging is key to avoid carrying around large expensive packs for grocery store shopping....
@chryoko Yes, if and when SSBs are mass produced, VTOLs and small airplanes will be the primary customers due to cost/price, I believe. They certainly won't be used in economy cars. Perhaps they will eventually enter common use, but I won't be around to see it.
So she states that the cell is half the weight of a traditional cell, but does it have the same energy? Unfortunately no proper information about the gravimetrical energy density.
that was the first question that came to my mind. Energy density...
They are claiming LiS > 450Wh/kg Vs 250 Wh/kg for NMC at cell level
@@battousaihimura
>450 Wh/kg is a battery that allows long distance battery powered flight. Let's see if they can achieve decent cycle life along with good charge/discharge characteristics.
At 1:07 if you pause the video you'll see a sample shown on the left. On the product shown the weight is 1.25kg and the capacity is 120WH that gives about 96WH per KG.
@@irokpe6977that one is the LFP cell on display, not LiS
Is this anything like other industries where the price in the pre market phase is one third the price in the delivery phase while the performance is also less than described?
at the beginning you can sell it at a premium to porsche and ferrari to shape off some weight and still add a bit of range.
that can refinance some of the investments a bit earlier or help to scale up faster.
and the short range aviation industry pays well also. especially the military sector that is already one important cornerstone in your business.
as you said, we live in exciting times. great stuff! it will make EVs so cheap. and it will make trucks like the F150 affordable and add quite some range. especially with heavy truck like that, it is difficult to compete with the old ICE versions when the application requires a long range. 20% more range and 20% less weight for the same price would be great already.
I'm imagining a future with Battery management systems that know how to manage multiple chemistries, in the same pack, strategically.
You could just have two packs. Tesla could already integrate and fit plenty. But with the performance delta NMC and LFP has it probably doesn't make much sense. For a track focused car some capacitor bank solution could make sense. Imagine being able to regen every corner in Nurburgring and not overheat the main pack.
Really interesting new battery chemistry
Density & Safety means the most
Small Battery in plugin hybrid is a hard working Battery.
Big battery vehicles battery is perfect for daily home top-up.
Light loading on big battery.
The problem with Lithium ion replacements is energy density sodium and sulfur batterys sound good but you couldn't get a 2 3 4 hundred mile range
What’s the power density/kg?
I wonder if we'll eventually come to a place where automakers are using multi-chemistry packs where they can take the advantages of some chemistries having better cold weather performance for example, and use those as a last use bank while higher cycle life batteries take the brunt of the duty cycle. It would require more advanced management systems but I think that sounds like a worthwhile cost if you can get some nice advantages.
If you want to reduce the cost further wouldn't you consider Sodium Sulphur?
A nice story, perhaps it will work out but even Celina said they are still working on cycle life so this chemistry is far from a done deal at the moment.
Current problem is mostly volumetric density not mass but if it is safer
Sounds great!
“Celina, thanks for your time”
“Shiiiittttt, yeah…”
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I enjoyed listening to this woman, GREAT interview. Still have lots of questions though. Are they to be made as a solid state format? Are they NON FLAMMABLE? What are their C rating, can they pump out & take in at HIGH rates? Looking forward to this tech and wish Lyten much success.
Thanks. I was wondering what they'd been up to?
It takes deep pockets to do the necessary research.
they forgot to mention they wear out faster and dendrites form faster and are prone to fires
so what is stopping CATL from making these as well?
I hope that they can go up to 4880 cells. Half the weight and 40% savings sounds very, very appealing.
Tesla Semi, CyberTruck, and the upcoming *CyberCab* could use the new chemistry.
They stand a real chance if they are capable of the number of cycles.
The only thing the ct needs is a scrapyard
Just that "slight" problem they have immolated over 100 people in China. Until they can DEMONSTRATE these cells will not EXPLOSIVELY immolate all occupants of a vehicle, this is a NON STARTER
Don't buy cars from Nazis
@@MaticTheProto it’s always funny spotting snowflakes like you in the comment sections who are triggered by the Cybertruck 😂
@@danburkland How am I a snowflake? Just because you have your head so far up your ass you somehow missed the gazillion reports about the CTs unreliability. Grow up
Looks promising but definitely curious about the cycle life.
So has there been a breakthrough in the design of the cathode structure for lithium-sulfur batteries? Can they already move out of the lab and into mass production?
If the form factor lives up to the hype. I see this as a perfect application to e-bikes and small mobility products. Even electric motorcycles have been held back by battery weight, range, and cost.
This sounds too good to be true. A Model 3 with batteries weighing even 20% less would be a game changer.
My experience with "exotic" chemistry batteries is they have a very narrow efficiency temperature band.
Hope this pans out. But actually producing a better battery is often tried with many failures. The great thing is we now have batteries that are good enough. We're just looking for better and better is better.
Good enough is not great for many applications.
@@jasonneugebauer5310
Good enough is specific to an application. LFP batteries are good enough for almost all EV applications. Super-performance and extremely long range EVs will need a different chemistry.
What is the weight savings vs current Tesla cells?
Sounds ideal for drones - a modest market likely to pay a premium for increased flight time.
Sounds perfect for the Aptera 🔋
Sounds like a good fit for drones
theres an australian company who have been producing graphene in bulk cheaper than what it used to cost in the past, they have produced graphene batteries that can full charge about 5 mins compared to hours, and they are more energy dense than lithium, last longer, dont heatup like lithium, have a longer charge life than lithium, they have already sent samples to major battery companies around the world, not sure why there is very little info on this company
I like this video the best so far. Celina sounded very approachable and realistic. Still, everyone still refers to things coming “ in a few years”.
What would you say instead?
Yet another promising cell chemistry
Just put it in the fireproof trash bin over there, next to all the other failed battery chemistries that were going to make EVs viable over the last 25 years.
@@1225KPH they already are viable and evs burn far less often than ice cars
@@MaticTheProto It's not how often they burn, it's how big and unextinguishable they burn. Are you enjoying wallowing in ignorance? No ICE car fire ever sank an auto transport ship. or took out tyhe entire parking structure of a South Korean apartment building displacing 100 families. No semi tractor truck closed the I80 freeway in California for 16 freakin' hours while it burned. A Tesla Semi did. And, they had to use aerial drops of fire retardant from a helicopter.
EV owners and eco-weenies are the stupidest people on the planet.
we need to make off grid solar charging stations
So where does sulfur come from? Are there industrial processes where sulfur is a byproduct or waste material? Those sources could be a factor in the supply chain part of this.
The world is drowning in sulfur. The problem is that Li-S is a near explosive and was VERY briefly introduced in China where hundreds of people were killed by their buses' and cars catching on fire. Until they demonstrate this battery type will not explode into a giant fireball, and let ANYONE handle them trying to get them to burn, this is a non starter. Yea yea, they were talking cycle life, but that is NOT the problem.
Sulfur in form of sulfuric acid is one of the major feed stocks of the chemical industry, we make loads of it! Its extracted from fossil natural gas, so thats not great .
Sulfur is a byproduct of fossil fuel refining and use.
Yes, sulfur is cheap and plentiful
They are spending a Billion dollars to build a plant in Reno- very interesting!
Reminds me of quantum scape. Hype it to the moon to get investments then reality hits and product is not mature and not ready for mass market.
has to scale and get to production its hard for small companies to scale up and everything is always delayed we will see in 2027.
At least she is not saying they will ready next month. Still sounds like some aggressive timeliness for reaching market.
CATL, BYD, and others are rapidly expanding. Would love e to see another strong competitor in the battery space. The more competition, the better it is for the consumer.
I am looking forward to her product being mass produce. Ahe knows what customers want. High energy density, lightweight and affordable. If you're able to nail all these 3 points, your product is flying off the shelves
Let a hundred batteries charge!
If the USA government would stop throwing money into the pockets of the military industrial complex, there would be plenty of money to fully convert to renewable energy.
Batteries come and go, getting houses to PUT them in would require a larger share of that hopelessly inflated military money.
I was falling asleep until she said half the weight.
It took Tesla since battery day (2020?) to reach semi volume production of 4680, probably far from 100 MWH. And she says they will do 100 MWH next year from current 10 MWH? And the cycle life is unresolved?
40% cheaper, that's $60 per kWh production costwise?
Clean up the background audio noise.
Double the battery size for a 20% saving. 😊😊😊😊
Lithium-Sulfur is absolutely the future of batteries along with Solid State batteries. Sulfur can hold as much as 5 times more Lithium Ions that the best current chemistries using Nickel and Cobalt with 1/3 the weight. So a current 300 miles of range becomes as much as 1,500 miles. But even half that beats all current ICE ranges (so why on earth did he bring up hybrids with twice the parts to go wrong? Isn't 1,500 miles enough? Good of her to shut him down). And of course, the cost of Nickel and Cobalt is gone from the picture.
So of course, Lyten is far from the only company working on them.
So many people don't understand how much range they really need. With rapid charging becoming very accessible hardly anyone needs more range than what they can drive between meals.
@@bobwallace9753 Correct. But the extra range is definitely needed when towing. And this shut up all those naysayers with the unprecedented ranges these will provide. Not only for the EV's, but also the extra storage capabilities on the battery megapacks at charging sites with solar which are springing up all over right now. They collect all the solar when EV's aren't charging on it.
@@junehanzawa5165
True. Some people need more range because they tow. But how many people tow something a long distance more than once every few years? How many people ever tow at all? If you tow but very seldom, rent something for that once every couple of years stuff.
Right tool for the right job.
@@bobwallace9753 Regardless of your point being correct, if we want people to abandon ICE, the more range the better. Which is why EVERY company and battery maker in working on improving range and energy density. New technology only replaces old technology if it's better, not the same. So EV's have to beat ICE in range. And they will. By far.
@@junehanzawa5165
I understand your point. But ask yourself why people think they need as much or more range than they have with their ICEV. The general public is very undereducated about EVs.
There is hard work being done to increase energy density. That's important because, assuming cost/kWh is about the same, a lighter battery has multiple advantages. But what is most likely to get people into EVs is lower sales prices. And a lower range EV is going to be a less expensive EV.
If we had a good quality 250 mile range EV that sold for $25k which would be less than $20k after the federal subsidy, it would blow the market wide open. That would be a car that would pay for itself over its lifetime via fuel and maintenance savings.
So you've got only a 250 mile range. Start your 500 mile drive day which you do twice a year with the full 250 and drive down to 10%. That's 225 miles. Stop for less than a half hour and charge to 80%. Drive down to 10% which would be 175 miles. That's 400 miles. One more short stop and you've driven 500 miles with a modest range EV. How many thousands of dollars would you be willing to spend to make that a one stop day rather than a two stop day? (A meal and a pee.)
They should make it for normal aa batteries first
And we will never be able to buy a product that contains one.
Most likely not. A reasonable guess is that globally there are 100s of new technologies and variants being worked on by a somewhat smaller number of labs. That says we have a lot of research to do and a lot of room for improvement. In the event that this groups fails others may utilize some of its technology in their work. It is not unlike the path that lead to the airplane.
Humans will never fly.
Cars will never replace horses.
People will not want personal computers.
How do you know?
well, for now you are not the buyer of military equipment that has samples of them in there already.
@@ronfarnsworth7074from a consumer level it’s all about cost and durability. There are lots of new exciting chemistries that have potential, but take a significant amount of time to study and then to scale.
Toyota should add this to their hydrogen fantasy playlist
does it beat the potential of aluminum graphene? how about some serious questions. other than weight and cost, what are the benefits. safety? power density? still lithium... seriously ask some questions. sounds like they still dont have the cycles problem worked out.
i guess they are in the area of 500 cycles. the graphene should prevent the sulphur to leave the cathode. i guess that is not perfect so far and some sulphur gets shuttles in the direction of the anode which destroys the battery a bit every charging cycle.
With smaller lithium cells like the model S the voltage drop is less across the larger amount of cells. The cells last longer. The larger the cell the lesser amount of cells in the cell pack and the greater the drop in voltage as they discharge and a shorter life span of the battery. We still do not see any new battery tech in production for cars. It may be 50 years before energy density of batteries is closer to kerosine or Jet fuel. Jet fuel is 37.54 Kilowatts per gallon. Let that sink in. 37 kilowatts in the size of a shoe box. So 4- shoe box batteries with equivalent power would be over 148 kilowatts or 27 shoe box size batteries just over 1 megawatt. 4 megawatts of power is required to get the Boeing 747 off the ground. 50 years. wait. See what happens. The future is NOT now. I need 4 megawatts in 1 shoe box battery to power my Iron heart. Total Heartbeats: Approximately 3 billion.
Total Blood Pumped: Approximately 62 million gallons over a lifetime. Power consumption 4 megawatts. Decentralized energy (no GRID or mini GRIDs)will be common If a small powerful 1-2 megawatt batteries one day will hold massive energy. Science fiction? Nope! We are lazy humans stealing dirty OIL energy from The Carboniferous period. Plants. Plants that used solar energy. Every thing is and always was solar powered including all fossil fuels. Most 80% of the oxygen you breath is still created from a single cell(3.2 billion years old) that is not a plant. Not a Bacteria like Archaeans.
All these machines to build cells. Why dont you guys do a simpler version of the process of the average cell.
there is no simpler process than adding layer by layer.
@stefanweilhartner4415 Oh yeah. Who makes these machines? Are they innovating? And the only way to make batteries is to pass parts through millions of dollars of furnace and drying equipment. Right.
@@stefanweilhartner4415 Dodge is hiring.
How about planes and boats
The bots sure like emojis.
Lithium sulfur has downsides, it has lower voltage potential meaning lot of current ( higher temp) to match ncm or nca chemistries
thanks, its 2030 and still we don't have a good battery.
If one of these breaches it’ll be a stink bomb instead of a fire.
I hate when they avoid the question
T-rex arms
I've been listening to "the XX% lighter and YY% cheaper battery that is comming in just a few years" narrative for over 20 years now. Still waiting for the breakthroughs that should have come in the 2010s. Practically all carmakers promised some "unique" battery technology in their cars by 2025, but I've seen nothing yet. The only actual technology that came out of all these years of research is the cheaper LFP, and while it is great in terms of price, safety and charging cycles it offers lower energy density than lithium-ion.
If everything she says is true, Tesla would have heard about it already and would be looking to purchase the IP or licence the tch
@ 1:35 , this woman is slipping, sliding, and slick. She talks in generality, beats around the bush, and obfuscate the drawbacks of her LiS battery. Fact: her LiS battery is not ready for mass production, sales, or adoption. In the pioneer days there were snake oil salesmen. Today, we have snake oil salesmen selling Lithium ion batteries.
To trailers or drons
You have to compete against other technology that what they don't talk about.
Information are a bit contradictory to each other. 40% cheaper but could scale up only non-automotive in this decades, does it missing opportunities?
Can’t be automotive “cycle” required yet? And not good for hybrid (10-20 years life span expectancy) which means cheap but have to replace regularly = high maintenance cost.
Not talking about thermal run away. Claiming is useless but specific testing on its formula is needed. High energy density have potential high chance on fire issue.
Most important is very slow scale up plan means a lot of unspoken issue!
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I don't think so
So they already finished😅
As soon as she said the cycle life was not good i ended the video... Not gonna be able to get traction and are too far behind the competition
not good for EVs. a few decades ago these chemistries had a cycle life of about 50. now they are in the area of 500. automotive wants 1500.
ALL THIS " GAME CHANGERS" BATTERY 😅 I THOUGHT THEY SAID IT WAS SODIUM NOW IT IS SULFUR....🤭 SO WHAT IS IT REALLY....😁
Do it
Perhaps I'm wrong, but it sounds more like 2030 than 2027, and I'm sure SSB will be out long before then, making LiS batteries somewhat irrelevant.
I wouldnt work for her, but Lytens engineering and technology is good. The only issue is cyle time, and we need to know if the failure is due to the sulphur pathway. Why is she bad? Too much I in her commentary. Lyten is a we. She doth assume much, a narcissistic characteristic.
If you can't get racing EVs to bite on this new technology, than I don't know what to tell you.
Buy ICE.
6:31 Still can't do the cycles. That's why nobody is using sulphur or sodium despite their other advantages.
Fyi sodium Is already being used, for automotive applications.
Wait wait, don't tell me, Elon invented them.
Ths batteries will in future make great impression. But complete EVs driven with them will not. I think that "no produced complete EVs driven with best in world batteries " will be better -( they do not weight at all, charging is 100% no problem, people no need to build and use additional hughe energy plants, grid, and build home charging installations , they do not set anything on fire . In emergency evacuation like flooding "no posessed EVs" are equaly as good as aexisting EVs except that "not posessed" in emergency can be left home with no worry). .
So why didn't Duracell get in on this? 🐇🐰
Why would a disposable battery company make a battery that causes them to buy less? Duracell and Energizer are greatly responsible for how people believe batteries are and will be.
@@joebachmeier6747 Yes, they do, don't they?
@@2cartalkers no. They don't.
@@joebachmeier6747 But they could if they if they wanted to?
@2cartalkers likely buy why would you improve it if you get all the sales anyways. Maybe. Maybe they were just too stupid. But they dominated small battery sales for decades. Guess it makes sense. GM crushed all the EV1's. Why?
Yes more pie in the sky; no discussion of potential negatives - what do they cost? What is the lifespan? Are they even more fire prone? when will this be in mass production?Just like all these other chemistries selenium; graphene, silicon, no one has commitments and hard answers. Compare this to the 1980s micro processor race - are you going to invest billions in fabrication if the competition has a better product coming in 6 months? No. If there becomes a list of various players then you have a major split up of the market and chaos. You already have Chaos in China with over 90 remaining 100% BEV makers; all going bankrupt.
These batteries don't have the same metalic oxides that cause lithium ion batteries to be so flammable. The design of these batteries makes them resistant to catching on fire.
@@terrysparrow2180 By "these batteries" are you meaning these Sulfer batteries which aren't in any sort of significant production or battery farm batteries that are in use today? th-cam.com/video/SaH9sqJUn_4/w-d-xo.html This fire in San Diego burnt for 6 days.
not as good as solid state technology. pass
Yikes. Dei company. Avoid
Lithium needs to be dumped
With a 50 mile range, no thanks
How far do you now go on your foot-propelled skateboard?
thanks for proving that, “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.“
He appears to be a charming young fellow, but a word salad that seems never-ending eventually wore me down and I stopped listening.
Which is why YT has cat videos....
And thanks for being Consistently.... Wrong on all counts...