Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "Microsoft AI analysed 33 million candidates to find material to replace lithium" video.

  1. ​ @walterwhite1  Mostly for US-made Tesla EVs and long-range US export variants.
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  2.  @walterwhite1  Musk said that the amount of lithium in a lithium-ion battery is about 2% of its total volume. Musk: “Our cells should be called Nickel-Graphite, because primarily the cathode is nickel and the anode side is graphite with silicon oxide… [there’s] a little bit of lithium in there, but it’s like the salt on the salad,”
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  3. Tesla Nickel-cobalt-aluminium (NCA) battery cell is already a low 2% lithium.
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  4. CEO Elon Musk described the process in a very simple way:: “What is the best way to take the ore and extract the lithium and do so in an environmentally-friendly way? We have been looking at from a first principle physic standpoint instead of just the way it has always been done. We found that we can actually use table salt, sodium chloride, to basically extract the lithium from the ore. Nobody has done this before to the best of my knowledge.
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