Episode 61: 4th Advent

Happy 4th Advent!

In the last part of our Advent special, Prof. Jürgen Janek (Justus Liebig University Giessen) answers another six questions you asked us this year about e-cars, batteries or home storage.

• What exactly is the role of cell voltage in a battery's performance?
• Can LFP batteries really not catch fire at all?
• What advantages will CATL's lithium manganese iron phosphate batteries have over LFP?
• When will vanadium redox flow batteries make their breakthrough?
• Car manufacturers are constantly optimizing their algorithms as far as the charging behavior of their vehicles is concerned. What exactly is being optimized?
• Why is "vehicle-to-grid" (i.e. feeding electricity back from the e-car into the power grid) not (yet) possible in Germany?