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Q&A: COMPANY’S CHEMISTRY COULD CUT EV BATTERY COSTS

A small company called Sila has contracts with most major automakers to research or provide a promising new battery chemistry that can let electric vehicles travel farther with a smaller battery.

The Alameda, California, company began more than a decade ago as a startup out of Georgia Tech, and co-founder and CEO Gene Berdichevsky says its chemistry can store more energy than current lithium-ion batteries.

In current batteries, lithium ions move from anode to cathode, generating electricity by splitting into charged ions and electrons.

Graphite stores lithium atoms

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