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Record price drop: LFP battery cells for $50/kWh and NMC for $80/kWh. Hardly anyone would have thought such cell prices possible just a few years ago! At first glance, they bring enormous benefits for consumers and car manufacturers or home storage providers. The prices for electric cars will continue to fall, and we are already seeing a significant drop in prices for home storage. This naturally also encourages the expansion of large-scale storage in Germany. However, if you analyze this more closely, as Prof. Dirk Uwe Sauer from RWTH Aachen did in our podcast, some critical points and open questions emerge. European cell production is only just being established. Now, in an already difficult situation, these rock-bottom prices come at an inopportune time. After all, how are manufacturers supposed to keep up with their Asian competitors at these prices? European manufacturers have to contend with high initial investments and high scrap rates and cannot produce economically at these sales prices. Another question is whether the price will stabilize at this level and whether Chinese manufacturers can even operate economically with it? And what's next for sodium-ion batteries, whose main advantage should be their lower price? Are they now superfluous? In the Geladen podcast, Patrick Rosen and Daniel Messling and their guests discuss the scientific topics of #energy transition, #electromobility, #electric cars and #batteries. The podcast is produced by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Geladen mugs, shirts & caps: https://geladen-der-batteriepodcast.m... Instagram: / ladenpodcast All links: https://linktr.ee/geladen