Gerrit Cloete

30th May 2022

Best Lithium Battery Chemistry

At present, there are two main types of lithium batteries manufactured for commercial and residential energy storage:

The different chemistries:

Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries (LFP): 3.2V

Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxides (NMC): 3.6V

Lithium Polymer (LiPo) batteries are mainly used in high specific energy requirements.

What other chemistries are available?

Lithium Titanium (LTO): 2.4V batteries last many cycles but are quite expensive.

Lithium Supercapacitors. Or more specifically hybrid capacitors. They function like electrochemical batteries by storing charge Faradically as well as storing charge like a classic Electrostatic capacitor.