Energy consumption of current and future production of lithium-ion and post lithium-ion battery cells

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Abstract Due to the rapidly increasing demand for electric vehicles, the need for battery cells is also increasing considerably. On the macro-economic level, we find that the energy consumption for the global production of LIB and PLIB cells will be 130,000 GWh if no measures are taken.

🔑 Key Findings

• However, the production of battery cells requires enormous amounts of energy, which is expensive and produces greenhouse gas emissions.
• Here, by combining data from literature and from own research, we analyse how much energy lithium-ion battery (LIB) and post lithium-ion battery (PLIB) cell production requires on cell and macro-economic levels, currently and in the future (until 2040).
• On the cell level, we find that PLIB cells require less energy than LIB cells per produced cell energy.

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