Will lithium-ion always dominate EV battery tech and can supply keep up?
Watts Under the Bonnet, carsales' electric car podcast, busts myths and answers your questions about the fast-charged world of electric vehiclesIf the EV batteries of tomorrow aren’t as lithium-dependent as those today, can Australia still be a minerals superpower as the race towards global electrification shifts up a gear?
In this episode of Watts Under the Bonnet, the carsales podcast team talks to Dr Veronika Wright, who dissects lithium-ion mechanics. What’s more, she challenges the viability of solid-state batteries, hailed by some as the next frontier in energy storage.
So what are the alternatives and just how different will future battery composition be?
We also speak with Peter Newman, Professor of Sustainability at Curtin University and Lead Author for Transport at the IPCC (the UN’s climate change body), to discuss the national and global implications for a lithium-ion economy.
Newman sheds light on Australia's mining industry manoeuvres, propelling the nation from ‘exporter’ toward ‘innovator’ status.
With value-added strategies upstream in the lithium supply chain, he envisions local economic revitalisation and Australia's ascent as the beacon of green exporters in critical minerals.
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