{"id":106627,"date":"2020-05-05T22:44:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/tesla-improves-on-its-million-mile-battery-with-less-cobalt-and-higher-energy-density"},"modified":"2020-05-05T22:44:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-06T05:44:21","slug":"tesla-improves-on-its-million-mile-battery-with-less-cobalt-and-higher-energy-density","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/tesla-improves-on-its-million-mile-battery-with-less-cobalt-and-higher-energy-density","title":{"rendered":"Tesla improves on its \u2018million-mile battery\u2019 with less cobalt and higher energy density"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T7Rnf8fmmX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tesla has made even more battery improvements on its new \u2018million-mile battery\u2019 now with less cobalt, which could result in lower cost and even more energy density.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, we were the first to report on Tesla\u2019s battery research partner, Jeff Dahn and his team at Dalhousie University, unveiling <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2019\/09\/07\/tesla-battery-cell-last-1-million-miles-robot-taxis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the impressive results of tests on a new battery cell that could last over 1 million miles in an electric vehicle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The new battery tested is a Li-ion battery cell with a next-generation \u201csingle crystal\u201d NMC 532 cathode and a new advanced electrolyte, which <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2019\/09\/13\/tesla-patent-battery-cell-better-performance-cheaper\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">they patented<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla has made even more battery improvements on its new \u2018million-mile battery\u2019 now with less cobalt, which could result in lower cost and even more energy density. Last year, we were the first to report on Tesla\u2019s battery research partner, Jeff Dahn and his team at Dalhousie University, unveiling the impressive results of tests on [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-106627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}