The EU's E-MAGIC project recently received € 6.5 million (about $ 7.42 million) in funding. The project will focus on the development of new magnesium-based batteries for electric vehicles.
The project will run until 2022, and the collaborator is Spanish Fundación Cidetec, which attracts professionals from ten research institutions to participate in the project.
Compared with lithium batteries, magnesium-based batteries are more powerful, cheaper, and safer. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany and their partners are full of hope for this project. Magnesium is a promising battery material and is part of a post-lithium strategy. Important alternative material.
E-MAGIC's project partners will participate in the development of magnesium-based batteries throughout the process, covering everything from basic research to mass production of battery cells. The project aims to develop a magnesium-based battery with a long practical life.
Nevertheless, researchers want to take advantage of the advantages of magnesium metal: magnesium anodes do not generate dendrites. In lithium-ion batteries, electrochemical accumulations on such electrodes can form needle-like structures and cause battery failure or short circuits. If magnesium metal is used, the high storage capacity of the metal can be directly utilized to improve battery performance. The ratio of magnesium reserves is nearly 3000 times that of lithium reserves, and its recycling is more convenient.