Battery research: How the e-car battery hardly ages at all
October 8, 2024
Battery research: How the e-car battery hardly ages at all
In this September issue, Prof Arnulf Latz (DLR) and Prof Axel Groß (University of Ulm) are guests of Patrick Rosen and Daniel Messling from the podcast "GELADEN".
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Podcast "Geladen"
Anyone buying an electric car for the first time will inevitably be concerned with the expected service life of the traction battery. Various battery usage tips are circulating on the internet (in addition to a lot of misinformation!) about the "degradation of lithium-ion batteries", which effectively prevent them from ageing too quickly
Extending battery life is a hot topic in materials science: in this podcast-episode the two battery researchers Prof. Arnulf Latz (DLR) and Prof. Axel Groß (University of Ulm) explain which charging behaviour causes Lithium- batteries to age particularly quickly - and what exactly happens in the cell during these damaging processes.
