Startup Cooks Up Potassium Batteries For The Electric Vehicle Of The Future, Eventually
of the University of Texas at Austin, who just celebrated his 100th birthday last year.
Prussian blue cathodes with an exceptionally high energy density of 510 watt-hours per kilogram, comparable to that of today’s lithium batteries,” Patel noted in his 2020 piece.Journal of the American Chemistry Society That brings us to the newly announced Group1 news. Listed among the startup’s leadership are battery innovator Alexander Girau, Chief Science Officer Dr. Yakov Kutsovsky , and Dr. Leigang Xue.
“Unlike LIBs [lithium-ion batteries], raw materials used by Group1 to create KIBs [potassium-ion batteries] are sustainable, in that they are widely available both in the United States and internationally,” Group1 explains. “The potassium used in Group1’s KPW cathode materials is 1,000 times more abundant in the earth than lithium, as well as 20 times more affordable.”
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