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Just getting a kick reading about current battery trends. It appears new generations are moving to the “solid -state battery”  All this resource intensive, polluting and raping for a technology who’s time is just not here, here is a great example of Stupid.
Gm’s Hummer 
The battery consists of two 400-volt battery packs packaged
in parallel – one on top of the other – each with 12 battery modules. That gigantic brick in the floor is a major contributor to the truck’s 9000 pound curb weight.
9000 Pounds!  The battery 2500 lbs.  Can you imagine getting slammed into by some asshole doing 50 mph in a 9000lb vehicle that turns into an unextinguishable fire ball!

 

Lithium
nickel manganese cobalt oxides (abbreviated NMC, Li-NMC,
LNMC, or NCM) are mixed metal

oxides of lithium,
nickel, manganese and cobalt with the general formula
LiNi_xMn_yCo_1-x-yO₂.
These materials are

commonly used in lithium-ion batteries for mobile
devices and electric vehicles, acting as the positively charged

chatode

The Ni-rich cathode materials are considered the most relevant
next-generation positive-electrode materials for

lithium-ion
batteries (LIBs)  as they offer low cost and high energy density
materials. However, by increasing Ni

content in the cathode
materials, the materials suffer from poor cycle ability, rate
capability and thermal

stability. Therefore, this review article
focuses on recent advances in the controlled synthesis of lithium
nickel

manganese cobalt oxide (NMC). This work highlights the
advantages and challenges associated with each

synthesis method that
has been used to produce Ni-rich materials. The crystallography and
morphology

obtained are discussed, as the performance of LIBs is
highly dependent on these properties. To address the

drawbacks of
Ni-rich cathode materials, certain modifications such as ion doping,
and surface coating have been

pursued. The correlation between the
synthesized and modified NMC materials with their electrochemical

performances is summarized. Several gaps, challenges and guidelines
are elucidated here in order to provide

insights for facilitating
research in high-performance cathode for lithium-ion batteries.

Nickel is a chemical element; it has symbol Ni and
atomic number 28. It is a silvery-white lustrous metal with a

slight
golden tinge. Nickel is a hard and ductile transition metal. Pure
nickel is chemically reactive, but large

pieces are slow to react
with air under standard conditions because a passivation layer of
nickel oxide forms on

the surface that prevents further corrosion.
Even so, pure native nickel is found in Earth’s crust only in tiny

amounts, usually in ultramafic rocks,[7][8] and in the interiors of
larger nickel–iron meteorites that were not

exposed to oxygen when
outside Earth’s atmosphere.