{"id":179386,"date":"2023-12-28T12:26:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T18:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/can-flow-batteries-finally-beat-lithium"},"modified":"2023-12-28T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T18:26:06","slug":"can-flow-batteries-finally-beat-lithium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/can-flow-batteries-finally-beat-lithium","title":{"rendered":"Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?"},"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\/8333g246i3o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On every count, nanoelectrofuel flow batteries appear to beat lithium-ion batteries for use in EVs and larger systems. Influit expects that its current generation of nanoelectrofuel, together with the entire ecosystem needed to produce, distribute, and recycle the fuel that the company is building around it, should cost $130\/kWh when used in an EV. In comparison, lithium-ion batteries cost around $138\/kWh. True, lithium-ion\u2019s costs should drop below $100\/kWh in a few years, but Influit expects its next-generation nanoelectrofuel to fall even further, to around $50 to $80\/kWh. That next-gen system should have 5 times the energy density of present Li-ion systems.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s what that means for an EV.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/motorandwheels.com\/electric-cars-battery-sizes\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">typical EV battery<\/a> today occupies about the same volume as would a flow battery with 400 liters of nanelectrofuel. If nanoparticles made up 30 percent of the weight of that fuel, the EV would have a range of only 105 km. Raise that to 40 percent, and the range would climb to 274 km. At 50 percent, it hits 362 km. And at 80 percent, it\u2019s 724 km (450 miles). And that\u2019s all assuming the flow battery\u2019s tank remains the same size.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On every count, nanoelectrofuel flow batteries appear to beat lithium-ion batteries for use in EVs and larger systems. Influit expects that its current generation of nanoelectrofuel, together with the entire ecosystem needed to produce, distribute, and recycle the fuel that the company is building around it, should cost $130\/kWh when used in an EV. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179386","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}