Lithium-ion batteries have dropped in cost by rel=”nofollow” href=”https://about.bnef.com/insights/commodities/lithium-ion-battery-pack-prices-see-largest-drop-since-2017-falling-to-115-per-kilowatt-hour-bloombergnef/”>75% over the past decade, a marvel of research and development that isn’t the result of a singular breakthrough but of myriad incremental improvements.
Few know that better than Chaitanya Sharma, founder of the stealthy rel=”nofollow” href=”https://www.nascentmaterials.com/”Nascent Materials. Sharma spent a little over two years working at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Nevada and another two leading iM3NY, a lithium-ion manufacturer in New York.
Since leaving iM3NY in November 2023, he’s been working on a new way to process cathode materials for…

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