US Researchers Are Developing An EV Battery Without ‘Forever Chemicals’
The global demand for lithium-ion batteries is forecast to increase from 700 gigawatt-hours in 2022 to a whopping 4.7 terawatt-hours by 2030, according to Mckinsey & Company. That’s because battery usage is not just growing in electric vehicles, but also in electrical appliances, drones, grid-level energy storage and dozens of other applications. But their dirty secret of using harmful chemicals hasn’t been addressed yet.

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