Although we often see some new battery technology, but want to really large-scale commercial or too far, in other words, the future will be lithium battery world.In order to protect the environment, more and more countries and The region still push the new energy vehicles, so this also forced the demand for lithium batteries, you want to make lithium batteries must be indispensable to cobalt elements.Although scientists can change the design method or use other elements instead of some elements, but Only cobalt is difficult to replace, which is the key to double its price a year.
A potential problem at the moment is that most of the world's cobalt mines occur as a by-product of the mining of other metals: Around 69% of the world's cobalt mines were obtained with copper mining in 2017 and 29% A by-product of mines, so the supply of cobalt is largely dependent on the market for copper and nickel.
In order to snatch better resources, many giants, including Apple, have paid close attention to the procurement of cobalt, in the hope that they will not be able to get stuck with lithium batteries themselves.
For the future of lithium batteries, Marc Grynberg, head of Umicore Materials, said: "No single element has a better energy density than nickel and no better elements than cobalt allow all of the energy to stabilize, so the next two or three Will not happen within a decade, lithium battery is still king.
Previously there was news that there are cell phone manufacturers prepared graphene battery, which is a new generation of commercially available batteries, the biggest advantage is that the same volume of battery storage capacity is about 45% of lithium batteries, but it can be Fully charged in 12 minutes and is highly stable in environments up to 60 degrees C. Now it's time to wait.
