{"id":158999,"date":"2017-04-05T19:10:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T02:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/battery-prelithiation-shortens-costly-formation-time\/"},"modified":"2017-04-05T19:10:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T02:10:56","slug":"battery-prelithiation-shortens-costly-formation-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/battery-prelithiation-shortens-costly-formation-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Battery prelithiation shortens costly formation time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/battery-prelithiation-shortens-costly-formation-time\/\">Charles Morris<\/a><\/span>  Before a lithium-ion battery is installed in a vehicle, it must undergo a lengthy process called formation, in which it is charged and discharged to control the initial chemical reactions with lithium. Many of these reactions are irreversible and permanently decrease the battery&#8217;s available energy. The process requires expensive lithium to be part of the cathode, and it significantly increases manufacturing time. Finding a way to reduce or eliminate this process could substantially reduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/battery-prelithiation-shortens-costly-formation-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/battery-prelithiation-shortens-costly-formation-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Battery prelithiation shortens costly formation time\">https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/battery-prelithiation-shortens-costly-formation-time\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before a lithium-ion battery is installed in a vehicle, it must undergo a lengthy process called formation, in which it is charged and discharged to control the initial chemical reactions with lithium. Many of these reactions are irreversible and permanently decrease the battery&#8217;s available energy. The process requires expensive lithium to be part of the cathode, and it significantly increases manufacturing time. Finding a way to reduce or eliminate this process could substantially reduce the <a href=\"https:\/\/chargedevs.com\/newswire\/battery-prelithiation-shortens-costly-formation-time\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charged-magazine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seattleeva.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}