The electric car battery "to cobalt" is gradually becoming a trend

Recently, the musk said in a twitter issued by the Tesla's cobalt usage will be from the current 3% to 3%.

Earlier in June, Panasonic announced is developing cobalt free electric cars The battery. As the world's biggest car Lithium ion batteries Unit manufacturers, as well as the Tesla Model3, Models, and Model X battery sole supplier, Panasonic announced this news has extremely important significance.

Even today, Tesla's dosage of cobalt for Tesla battery components are no longer so important. Tesla and Panasonic in lower cobalt usage clearly ahead of other electric car manufacturers.

Tesla has long been developed by Japanese Panasonic lithium cobalt nickel (NCA) battery technology advocates and advocates, the nickel cobalt manganese (sliding) run counter to the development trend of the electric car battery. But musk still continually reiterated that the material world tendency is toward higher energy, lower cobalt content of cobalt chemicals in the direction of development.

Cobalt while is the key raw material of the new energy electric vehicles, but this kind of resources still exists many problems. With the rise of the electric car market, cobalt price is also more and more high.Leading to many automobile manufacturers on the cost pressure is more and more.

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