Panasonic, the company that makes electric vehicle batteries for automakers like Tesla, has teamed up with Sila Nanotechnologies, a company based in California, to start producing silicon-based anodes for EV batteries. Currently, almost every EV uses a graphite-based anode and lithium batteries. Panasonic is trying to make the batteries 25 percent more efficient by density by 2031. Using its new silicon-based battery architecture, EV batteries with Sila and Panasonic’s technology could reportedly have a range of upwards of 500
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