Tesla is working on a super battery capable of withstanding 1 million kilometers

Tesla is aware that the useful life of electric car batteries is not sufficient, so it is developing a super battery capable of exceeding one and a half million kilometers without causing problems.

Tesla continues to demonstrate that it is a company in continuous movement and evolution, which is why it continues to optimize all its systems to continue taking the initiative in the race for electrification.

Almost every week we have news from Elon Musk's company, and just last week Tesla declared war on Porsche at the Nürburgring, we learned that The Model 3 again scored the highest in a crash test or that Tesla will offer more powerful versions under the Plaid name.

One of the key elements of an electric car is the battery, since it is responsible for feeding the engine and achieving the greatest possible autonomy. One of the main Limitations of an electric car battery (in addition to the autonomy itself) is the useful life of the same, since clearly the life of a private electric car is not the same as that of a taxi, a bus or a truck.

Tesla wants to implement its new super-battery

Well, we have news in this regard, and that is that Tesla has admitted to developing a super battery capable of withstanding more than one and a half million kilometers.

This New battery would be able to last even three times longer than current batteries do of the company (6.000 cycles). What seems clear is that Tesla is going to keep its technique to achieve this a secret, since it is very beneficial for the brand to demonstrate that only they have the recipe to get an electric powertrain to withstand many kilometers.

Specifically, Elon Musk's company aims to Their vehicles can easily exceed the figure of one and a half million kilometres. without having to worry about the reliability of your batteries.

The experiments to obtain these super batteries have been carried out at Dalhousie University in Canada. With the support of Tesla, there have already been several years of tests in which the battery has been subjected to charge-discharge cycles at 20, 40 and 55 degrees Celsius.

Future mobility will require longer-lasting batteries

The researchers concluded that Longer battery cycles will be needed to meet the needs of future mobility. Some of the agents that will influence this will be robotized taxis, and Elon Musk has already stated that Tesla will become operator of this service.

In these experiments, something we already knew has been confirmed again, and that is that Superchargers end up penalizing the useful life of batteries. Therefore, they are considering using other materials to solve the problem.

Another doubt that this announcement clears up is that Tesla is working independently to develop its own batteriesIn this way, they would leave aside the company that has been their partner until now, the Japanese company Panasonic.

What has not been communicated is the ease of manufacture, that is, whether these chemical compounds needed to achieve the super-battery can be manufactured in such a large volume as the cells currently used. If it is feasible, Tesla will once again make a statement to differentiate itself from other brands.