GAME CHANGING Graphene Aluminum Ion Battery w/ Craig Nicol

Lithium-ion batteries are great, but the Graphene Manufacturing Group is developing some very impressive Graphene Aluminum-Ion batteries that could be the NEXT BIG STEP CHANGE in battery technology! In this video GMG's CEO Craig Nicol explains this amazing new battery tech and the proprietary technology that could very well make it viable for EVs in the coming near future.

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[stefanweilhartner]

there is also an interesting application as a buffer for fast chargers. that extreme power density is not needed but for trucks you want to charge with 1MW without putting too much strain on the grid. if you have a crazy high cycle life, it is perfect for grid/charging buffers.

[madsciencegary]

As a physicist and engineer, most of the discussion of technical details seems very credible to me, from "what is possible" standpoint, though obviously all of the issues to make it commercially feasible have not been demonstrated to be solved. Some of the issues have been demonstrated and some are still aspirational. Overall, I am left with the impression that the company has a real chance at a commercial product that will be valuable. One data point I really want to see is volume density compared to LiIon (as opposed to weight density); I suspect it compares favorably but I want to see it. If they are able to prove out all the other manufacturing and scability issues at the demonstrated 150 wh/kg or higher, I think they likely can produce at a lower final price (price at which further scaling doesn't produce much savings) than LiIon or LFP. It also seems likely that they could replace lead acid eventually since the price points are already coming together and lead acid's remaining value in vehicles is the ability to produce large currents in a small volume, and this chemistry certainly beats lead acid on that and every other spec. As with all the other new and partially developed battery claims, the devil is in the details and "if we can do ..." is not as certain as true believers want it to be. I like their scaling approach, coin-pouch-future and believe they have a higher likelihood of success than many other hyped companies.

[petebarnesTaiChi]

Sounds great and will be exciting to see an actual product using this battery technology that can be independently tested.

[Dave-dm]

We have so many “game changers” nobody knows what game to play.

[richf]

Please keep in touch with this company. This product is very exciting !

[fixitbrewbaycustom]

Finally a YouTuber that actually puts links to these new technologies!!!!

Great to see someone who’s diligently helping us get access to these issues and helping spread their efforts into the market!!
It’s a shame “Just have a think” couldn’t THINK ABOUT US like you have!

[shaunehuolohan]

Marketing loves a wow, with a Aluminium Graphine which can discharge at such a high rate, GMG should consider building for show, a drag car, which could break world records 🙂

[bobsaturday]

hopefully they can get this in the hands of somebody who can scale the prototypes up into mass production for an economically competing price sometimes very soon !
I guess the key to the process is making the graphene for low enough cost

[marklelohe]

Superb interview and very informative on why the world needs to leave behind the hysteresis life problems that previous battery technology is limited by. Very impressed by Craig Nichol being able to explain in a succinct understandable way a complex technological advancement. The one concern not discussed was the legal ownership of the technology and how that might affect future products and marketing?

[aftonline]

I can see a lot of potential for this battery becoming part of the structure of the vehicle. You could literally insert pouch batteries into the roof, doors and body of the vehicle to increase the energy density. I even wonder if you could sandwich the battery between layers of composites to make a really efficient lightweight vehicle like the Aptera. Combined with solar, this would make the Aptera even better than it already is. I can also see a lot of potential for Australia, which has large reserves of both LNG and bauxite, to either manufacture these batteries here, or export the minerals to the US to take advantage of the free trade relationship with the US, in conjunction with the new EV incentive.

[emceh]

Looks like perfect renewable energy storage solutions at current density but also with so High charging rate having 50kWh battery pack able to be charged 0-100% at 350kWh rate that would take around 9 minutes is also good news for most EV drivers.

[salec]

Rio Tinto in my country is synonymous with "destroys our cleanest agricultural land for Lithium and Boron". I am skeptical that they would really help out a technology which would cut their margin on Lithium sales.

[erichchan]

I am getting so confused now with all these new battery technologies now. The latest buzz is the Lithium Iron Phosphate (LFP) and Lithium Manganese Iron Phosphate (LMFP) batteries which EVs like Tesla and Ford are adding to their battery packs. I am curious what this Graphene Aluminum-Ion batteries compare to the LMFP batteries that are coming out.

[Kingramze]

I'm all for the right product for the right purpose. What market would this be best for? Electric vehicles? Consumer grade rechargeable batteries? Home power walls?

For a home power storage solution, I care more about safety and the total cost of the power storage. For an EV, I'd care about energy density and weight. We got a lot of great info on how it works and how they hope to improve the tech, but not a lot on what market segments they've targeted for the final products.

[gridvid]

Awesome... When will there be a first large scale factory?

[wric]

Lithium was adopted and mass produced 15 years later after patent expires. Thus the same can be said of all new battery tech, as no manufacturer likes to pay licensing fees.

[MyKharli]

If a tech post has `game changing `in its title then history is not on its side .

[destroya]

Good interview. I'd like to see him speak more on what are the current obstacles in the way of getting these items to the market.

[mondotv]

Positives: potential looks good. Reduced charging times, better power density (he quoted 70C for charge but no figure for discharge?), mature manufacturing process. Negatives - graphene is expensive to manufacture, product may still have many years of development before commercial viability. Some things didn’t make sense to me? Craig’s quoting a lower internal resistance but also says the battery is about the same round trip efficiency as lithium ion. If it’s the same efficiency then it generates about the same amount of waste heat. That’s the only place that energy can go. Waste heat will cause the internal resistance to rise and more waste heat - there’s no way around that without cooling. So imagine you’re taking in more regen. That equals more heat. You’re going to need a liquid cooling system in a hot climate. He also listed the cycle count on lithium ion at 600 - 1000 cycles. They would be very old figures. LiFe batteries are generally between 3000 and 6000 cycles, modern LMNC should last at least 1200 cycles and quality cells can go 1500 - 2000 cycles. I wish them all the best but they seem a long way from EV battery manufacture.

[bekiryildiz]

Latest testing data has demonstrated a calculated energy density that has increased by 93% from 150-160 Wh/kg to 290-310 Wh/Kg since the last battery update on the 22nd of June 2021