{"id":498596,"date":"2022-06-16T12:18:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T06:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=498596"},"modified":"2022-06-16T12:18:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T06:48:37","slug":"ev-battery-startup-alsym-aims-to-slash-cost-eliminate-lithium-and-cobalt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ev-battery-startup-alsym-aims-to-slash-cost-eliminate-lithium-and-cobalt\/","title":{"rendered":"EV battery startup Alsym aims to slash cost, eliminate lithium and cobalt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alsym Energy, a seven-year-old Massachusetts startup, aims to halve the cost of electric vehicle batteries with a new design that eliminates lithium and cobalt, two increasingly costly ingredients in many current EV batteries, the company said.<br \/>\nOne of the company&#8217;s goals is to help make EVs more affordable for a greater portion of the world&#8217;s population, a key executive said.<br \/>\nAlsym has partnered with one of India&#8217;s top automakers to jointly develop the new battery, Mukesh Chatter, chief executive and co-founder, said in an interview. Chatter declined to name the automaker.<br \/>\nIndia&#8217;s two largest vehicle manufacturers are Tata Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra, both of which build electric vehicles.<br \/>\nAlsym&#8217;s battery has the potential to be safer, more sustainable and easier to recycle because it is made with non-toxic, non-flammable materials that are readily available, said Chatter, who has a graduate degree in engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alsym Energy, a seven-year-old Massachusetts startup, aims to halve the cost of electric vehicle batteries with a new design that eliminates lithium and cobalt, two increasingly costly ingredients in many current EV batteries, the company said. One of the company&#8217;s goals is to help make EVs more affordable for a greater portion of the world&#8217;s population, a key executive said. Alsym has partnered with one of India&#8217;s top automakers to jointly develop the new battery, Mukesh Chatter, chief executive and co-founder, said in an interview. Chatter declined to name the automaker. India&#8217;s two largest vehicle manufacturers are Tata Motors and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,246,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-power-the-times-of-india","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}