{"id":190897,"date":"2024-06-09T14:22:59","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T19:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/toshiba-unveils-new-fast-charging-cobalt-free-battery"},"modified":"2024-06-09T14:22:59","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T19:22:59","slug":"toshiba-unveils-new-fast-charging-cobalt-free-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/toshiba-unveils-new-fast-charging-cobalt-free-battery","title":{"rendered":"Toshiba unveils new fast-charging, cobalt-free battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/toshiba-unveils-new-fast-charging-cobalt-free-battery2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Japanese electronics company Toshiba has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.global.toshiba\/ww\/technology\/corporate\/rdc\/rd\/topics\/23\/2311-02.html\">developed<\/a> a new kind of cobalt-free battery that could lead to cheaper, more sustainable EVs in the future.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The challenge:<\/strong> Road transportation is a significant contributor to climate change, accounting for <a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/ghg-emissions-by-sector\">12% of global greenhouse gas emissions<\/a>, so transitioning from fossil fuel-powered cars and trucks to electric vehicles (EVs) is crucial to meeting our climate goals.<\/p>\n<p>The lithium-ion batteries used in most of today\u2019s EVs have several problems, though, and a big one is that their cathodes are made of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/energy\/emerging-technologies-renewable-energy\">cobalt<\/a>, a rare and expensive metal often mined using child labor and environmentally destructive practices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Japanese electronics company Toshiba has developed a new kind of cobalt-free battery that could lead to cheaper, more sustainable EVs in the future. The challenge: Road transportation is a significant contributor to climate change, accounting for 12% of global greenhouse gas emissions, so transitioning from fossil fuel-powered cars and trucks to electric vehicles (EVs) is [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190897","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=190897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}