EX Tesla Engineer Just Shocked Tesla And The Entire EV Industry By Revealing This New Battery

The silicon anode-based battery has the potential to be a game-changer in battery chemistry in a field already brimming with innovations and technological developments, with everyone in the industry talking about how powerful this new battery is.

This new technology will increase energy density by 50%, in addition to cutting prices and delivering a safer battery. Sila's lithium-ion batteries have progressed beyond ideas and inflammation.

It has been integrated with the wearable health and fitness tracker Whoop 4.0, powered by Sila.

However, Sila's sustainable and renewable energy plan, which has been working relentlessly to enhance lithium-ion battery energy storage, will benefit from the Whoop fitness tracker.

Without a doubt, the new battery will extend the operating range of small electronics, but the Sila battery's potential should never be underestimated. The company is considering using its chemistry in electric vehicle batteries as well as small electronics.

What exactly is this novel battery?

We've all heard of a lithium-ion battery, right? Like in any other rechargeable battery, lithium ions travel between the negative anode and cathode electrodes of a lithium-ion battery. In today's lithium-ion batteries, graphite is used as an anode.

 

Sila employs nanostructured silicon instead of graphite to carry up to 24 times as much lithium without swelling or deterioration. Sila is not the only one who is exploring better battery chemistry.

Amperex Technology Company Limited, a Chinese battery manufacturer, has created a sodium-ion battery. The Lyten group has also unveiled an even more impressive light-cell EV, capable of powering an aeroplane with a mega-900-watt-hour-kilogram density.

Solid-state batteries are those that do not need liquid electrolytes. Sila is ending the year on a high note with its groundbreaking silicon-based lithium-ion battery.

How much time did it take them to accomplish this?

Sila Nanotechnologies has spent ten years developing silicon-based particles that can replace graphite as anode material. Because of these modifications, the battery cell can now contain more lithium ions than it could previously.

Sila's battery has a 20% increase in power and a 20% reduction in battery footprint because of the following: For Whoop's new battery, the company borrowed elements from its other sophisticated technology, resulting in a battery that reduced the size of their fitness tracker by a third while providing five full days of battery life.

Sila's massive power pack can reduce carbon emissions in freight and aviation by 17 percent by increasing energy density. Sila's 50 percent improvement over traditional batteries allows for long-distance transport and longer electric aircraft.

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What happened to Sila?

Silica nanotechnology is not a new concept in the battery sector. Sila's CEO, Gene Berdichevsky, is one of the country's most diversified CEOs, and the organisation has already won two comparable accolades in 2021 for overall leadership performance.

Berdichevsky is the one who created the Sila ideal. This guy was already planning and building solar automobiles as a first-year Stanford student. Gene didn't learn about this ambitious group of like-minded folks planning to manufacture electric vehicles until 2003.

As a result, he dropped out of Stanford and joined the company that would later become Tesla. What a surprise! Who would've guessed?! Berdichevsky was the company's eighth employee.

 

Today, it appears like everyone in the battery sector is linked with Tesla, and Berdichevsky was instrumental in helping Tesla overcome an early challenge. Thousands of lithium-ion batteries in its older electric vehicles' power packs reduced the risk of EV fire.

Berdichevsky used a combination of heat transfer devices, cooling ducts, and battery designs to ensure that any fire was contained. Berdichevsky determined how the energy density of lithium-ion enables EVs to go 500 kilometres on a single charge.

He was a visionary, and he even helped build the batteries for the Classic Roadster and the Model S. Berdichevsky left Tesla because he thought the world was moving too slowly toward electric vehicles.

New battery technology was still decades away from replacing lithium-ion batteries. While pursuing his master's degree in material science at Stanford, he had an epiphany: the solution was to improve an existing battery chemistry rather than find a new one.

As a result of the establishment of Sila Nano Technology, a new corporation and a revolution were born. Sila Nanotechnologies was founded in 2011 by Alex Jacobs and Professor Gleb Yuschen of the Georgia Institute of Technology.

The company is now working to improve live ion batteries, with the goal of enhancing them by 50% or even 100%.

Sila's invention improved the battery life of this fitness tracker, which also features a skin temperature sensor, heart rate monitor, pulse oximeter, and sleep coach with haptic alerts.

The new battery will power both electric vehicles and consumer products. As a result of the success of Whoop 4.0, it is now looking at electric vehicles and collaborating with Daimler and BMW, as well as other consumer electronics.

By the year 2025, BMW and Daimler will have formed a joint venture to incorporate Sila's silicon anode battery technology into a Sila battery. Berdichevsky believes that the battery industry will be pleasantly surprised when his new products hit the market soon.

It's time to face the facts and admit that a unique battery chemistry is required because current technology risks turning an electric battery into the same devil it's trying to avoid, which has environmental implications because lithium and cobalt extraction in South America, Asia, and Africa has a negative impact on local communities and the environment.

 

As far as we know, Tesla is considering harvesting lithium in Nevada via saline extraction. Saku Corporation also produced the world's first three-dimensional solid-state battery.

Sila, on the other hand, is focused on developing what he has now, which means he may soon overtake the rest of the pack. Is Tesla in danger as a result of this?

In the next few years, Sila Nanotechnology's new battery could represent a big threat to Tesla. Yes, Tesla is a fantastic brand that dominates the electric vehicle market, but it's well known that their batteries aren't the best.

Tesla must work harder and faster on battery efficiency improvements to stay ahead of the competition. What now? Sila is doing a smart thing by concentrating only on lithium-ion technology.

Because the company has consistently released new products, we may expect to see this technology integrated into existing manufacturing lines within the next few years, leaving other technologies in its trail.

This strategy resulted in a 600 million dollar investment in the company's new production line. Sila intends to create a plant similar to Giga Nevada in the near future.

It won't be as big, but it'll be able to make anode materials for a million automobile batteries and a billion consumer electronics batteries all at once. Isn't it purely a self-imposed goal?

The company plans to extract even more electricity from the lithium-ion chemistry to make the Sila battery have a positive influence on the environment and prevent climate change. So, do you believe Sila will one day overcome Tesla and produce better, more efficient vehicles?

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