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How Tesla tapped a tiny Canadian lab for battery breakthroughs
Sets up shop in Halifax with one of the world's busiest battery research teams
Reuters
May 14th 2020 at 8:59AM

Tesla is a leader in electric vehicle battery technology, but the company doesn't do all its own research.

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has reached out to battery experts clustered at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Tesla in 2016 agreed to fund a group of scientists led for the past 24 years by Jeff Dahn, a pioneer in lithium-ion battery development.

The work with Dahn's team is now playing a key role in Tesla's plans to introduce a new low-cost, long-life battery in its Model 3 sedan in China by early next year, Reuters reported on Thursday. The goal is to bring the cost of electric vehicles in line with gasoline models, and allow EV batteries to have second and third lives in the electric power grid.

Tesla's funding of Dahn's work is public, and Dahn has talked about some of his group's accomplishments at public and private forums, including a presentation in February at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Videos of that presentation and at least two others where Dahn discussed his work were posted on YouTube, but since have been removed.

Dahn started working on lithium batteries in the late 1970s as a graduate student at the University of British Columbia, and chemistries developed by his Dalhousie team are used in one of 10 electric vehicles today, Dahn said in a 2017 TEDx talk in Halifax. After conducting battery research for 3M and Medtronic, Dahn in 2015 signed a new research partnership with Tesla that runs through mid-2021.

Link to Full Story > https://www.autoblog.com/2020/05/14/tesla-battery-research-dalhousie-university-jeff-dahn-novonix/

Another TESLA-NOVONIX article...

Novonix rockets amid Tesla collaboration rumours, commercialisation plans and research breakthrough
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Lorna Nicholas -
June 3, 2020

Link > https://smallcaps.com.au/novonix-tesla-collaboration-rumours-commercialisation-plans-research-breakthrough/