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Before the average electric car can travel 500 highway miles on a single charge, we'll need better batteries than the lithium-ion packs used today. Last week, when Toyota told the press last week that it was working on a magnesium-based electric-car battery that could beat or even replace lithium-ion, the news dashed across the Internet. GM and Nissan already have electrified vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries on the market.
At CES, Ford finally revealed its long-promised battery-electric Ford Focus, which will also run on lithium-ion ;. Toyota, meanwhile, lags behind in the development of lithium-ion-powered EVs.
Any time we hear Toyota bemoan the state of lithium-ion technology, it's important to remember that Toyota has in fact built an extensive supply chain for lithium-ion batteries over the past few years. Their main battery partner is Panasonic, which took over Sanyo (the world's largest manufacturer of lithium-ion batteries) in 2008. In December, Toyota announced that it would adopt its new partner Tesla Motors's approach to aggregating lithium-ion laptop batteries into automotive battery packs. Many of the most advanced battery concepts being studied today are are, in fact, still based on lithium—they just operate differently than the particular type of rechargeable lithium battery that we call "lithium-ion."
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