With the new funding – which is the largest the institution has ever received from NSERC’s Alliance Grant program -, Dahn’s goal is to increase the lifetime and energy density of batteries for EVs and electrical energy storage applications, as well as their content of sustainable materials. This, with the idea of maintaining and improving the safety and reliability of the devices while lowering their cost.
Tesla and Dalhousie’s exclusive battery research partnership has been in place since 2015 and is expected to last at least until 2026.
In early 2020, the American automaker filed a patent application for a new lithium-nickel-manganese-cobalt battery cell chemistry based on the developments of Dahn and his team, which focused on additives to the electrolyte in order to increase the performance of Li-ion battery cell chemistry.
The objective of developing the new chemistry is to get Tesla closer to the one-million-mile battery.
