{"id":163528,"date":"2023-05-08T10:25:35","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-startup-uses-ai-to-design-ev-batteries-that-are-300-better"},"modified":"2023-05-08T10:25:35","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T15:25:35","slug":"this-startup-uses-ai-to-design-ev-batteries-that-are-300-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/this-startup-uses-ai-to-design-ev-batteries-that-are-300-better","title":{"rendered":"This startup uses AI to design EV batteries that are 300% better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-uses-ai-to-design-ev-batteries-that-are-300-better2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A startup called Chemix is using AI to move faster. Inside a San Francisco Bay Area lab, glowing machines\u2014which look a little like servers in a data center\u2014physically test different battery chemistries. Then the company\u2019s software platform, called Mix, uses the data to help design new versions for testing, speeding up the cycle of iteration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s suggesting new molecules for us to test on a daily basis,\u201d says cofounder and CEO Kaixiang Lin, who previously worked on battery design as a doctoral student at Harvard, a postdoc at Stanford, and at another battery startup. \u201cWe call it battery R&amp;D on autopilot, because there\u2019s very little human intervention in this process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It takes the system about six months, he says, to design new batteries that can beat the performance of existing batteries on the market by an average of 300%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A startup called Chemix is using AI to move faster. Inside a San Francisco Bay Area lab, glowing machines\u2014which look a little like servers in a data center\u2014physically test different battery chemistries. Then the company\u2019s software platform, called Mix, uses the data to help design new versions for testing, speeding up the cycle of iteration. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163528","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}