
The Quest for a Million Mile Battery
Currently, the Million Mile Battery is one of the most sought after technologies in the EV world. Driving for 1 million miles without needing to replace a battery pack is currently unheard of. In fact, batteries are usually replaced once they have lost around 20-30% of their capacity, something that usually happens after around 500,000 miles. Last year, a research team led by John Dahn that is partnered with Tesla produced a research paper in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society. The paper was titled ‘A Wide Range of Testing Results on an Excellent Lithium-Ion Cell Chemistry to be used as Benchmarks for New Battery Technologies'. One of the statements from the introduction of this paper includes the following snippet: "We conclude that cells of this type should be able…