{"id":3419,"date":"2020-07-12T15:14:12","date_gmt":"2020-07-12T15:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3419"},"modified":"2020-08-05T02:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:47:59","slug":"million-mile-batteries-are-coming-are-they-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/million-mile-batteries-are-coming-are-they-a-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cMillion-Mile\u201d Batteries Are Coming. Are They a Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author-data\">\n<p>Posted by <span class=\"fn n\"><a class=\"url\" title=\"See all posts by Maddie Stone\" href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/author\/maddie-stone\/\" rel=\"author\" data-ga-category=\"TopOfArticle\" data-ga-label=\"authorName\" data-ga-action=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/author\/maddie-stone\/\">Maddie Stone<\/a><\/span> , Mother Jones, July 11, 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This\u00a0 piece was originally published in<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/grist.org\/energy\/million-mile-batteries-are-coming-are-they-really-a-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Grist<\/a><i> and appears here as part of Mother Jones&#8217; <\/i>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatedesk.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"s2\">Climate Desk Partnership<\/span><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"dek\"><strong><em>They\u2019re likely to outlast whatever cars they\u2019re built for.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Electric vehicles (EVs) have a clear environmental advantage over their gas-guzzling counterparts, but when it comes to longevity, the two are in a dead heat. Two hundred thousand miles is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.consumerreports.org\/car-repair-maintenance\/make-your-car-last-200-000-miles\/#:~:text=10%20Cars%20Proven%20to%20Get%20to%20200%2C000%20Miles%20and%20Beyond&amp;text=The%20average%20age%20of%20all,a%20car%20for%20200%2C000%20miles.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">considered a good, long run<\/a>\u00a0for a car built today, regardless of whether it\u2019s powered by a lithium battery or an internal combustion engine. But if a flurry of recent reports are to be believed, EVs may soon surge ahead in this long-distance competition\u2014not by mere thousands of miles, but by 800,000.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, multiple EV battery makers have announced the imminent arrival of \u201cmillion-mile\u201d batteries, power packs that supposedly have enough juice to be driven to the moon and back twice. In May, a top executive at General Motors said the company was \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-gm-batteries\/gm-says-it-is-almost-there-on-million-mile-electric-vehicle-battery-idUSKBN22V2FS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">almost there<\/a>\u201d on development of a million-mile battery; in June, Chinese battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-06-07\/a-million-mile-battery-from-china-could-power-your-electric-car\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told <em>Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>\u00a0it was ready to produce batteries that last 1.24 million miles. For months,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/tesla-may-soon-have-a-battery-that-can-last-a-million-miles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">rumors have swirled<\/a>\u00a0that Tesla will soon roll out a million-mile battery on its own. Its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tesla.com\/ns_videos\/2019-tesla-impact-report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2019 Impact Report<\/a>, released in early June, certainly reinforced that impression when it emphasized the environmental advantages of a \u201cfuture Tesla vehicle with a million mile battery.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-caption\">Photo caption\/credit: An employee of Volkswagen Sachsen in Zwickau wires the battery on a line for the new VW ID.3, which is fully electric.<\/span><span class=\"media-credit\">Hendrik Schmidt\/Zuma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-data\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/environment\/2020\/07\/million-mile-batteries-are-coming-are-they-a-revolution\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FULL ARTICLE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by Maddie Stone , Mother Jones, July 11, 2020. This\u00a0 piece was originally published in Grist and appears here<span class=\"text-cutoff\">&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solutions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}