Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Magnesium Batteries ???

Germans are developing magnesium batteries for electric vehicles:

https://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2019/01/16/deutsche-wissenschaftler-entwickeln-revolutionaere-magnesium-batterien/ (translation required)

Don't know if they're any better than lithium batteries, but here are the relative global reserves of both metals:
  • magnesium - 2.4 billion metric tons
  • lithium - less than 20 million metric tons

Source for Mg data - http://metalpedia.asianmetal.com/metal/magnesium/resources&production.shtml

Source for Li data - https://www.statista.com/statistics/268790/countries-with-the-largest-lithium-reserves-worldwide/

Draw your own conclusions.

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