{"id":95909,"date":"2019-09-07T14:02:27","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T21:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/tesla-patents-new-battery-cell-for-faster-charge-better-longevity-and-lower-cost"},"modified":"2019-09-07T14:02:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T21:02:27","slug":"tesla-patents-new-battery-cell-for-faster-charge-better-longevity-and-lower-cost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/tesla-patents-new-battery-cell-for-faster-charge-better-longevity-and-lower-cost","title":{"rendered":"Tesla patents new battery cell for faster charge, better longevity, and lower cost"},"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\/3phU08h45xU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Tesla\u2019s battery research group led by Jeff Dahn in Halifax has applied for a patent that describes a new battery cell chemistry that would result in faster charging and discharging, better longevity, and even lower cost.<\/p>\n<p>Jeff Dahn is considered a pioneer in Li-ion battery cells. He has been working on the Li-ion batteries pretty much since they were invented. He is credited for helping increase the life cycle of the cells, which helped their commercialization. His work now focuses mainly on a potential increase in energy density and durability.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Dahn transitioned his research group from their 20-year research agreement with 3M to <a href=\"https:\/\/electrek.co\/2016\/08\/17\/tesla-battery-research-partner-jeff-dahn-cells-longer-range-life-cycle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a new association with Tesla<\/a> under the newly formed \u2018NSERC\/Tesla Canada Industrial Research\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tesla\u2019s battery research group led by Jeff Dahn in Halifax has applied for a patent that describes a new battery cell chemistry that would result in faster charging and discharging, better longevity, and even lower cost. Jeff Dahn is considered a pioneer in Li-ion battery cells. He has been working on the Li-ion batteries pretty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95909","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}