Determinants of lithium-ion battery technology cost decline

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Ziegler, Micah S; Song, Juhyun; Trancik, Jessika E
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Abstract
<jats:p>We elucidate why lithium-ion battery costs declined. We disentangle cost change mechanisms and quantify their effects, and find that research and development, especially in chemistry and materials science, played an outsized role in cost reduction.</jats:p>
Date issued
2021
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https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/145588
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Data, Systems, and Society
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Energy and Environmental Science
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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
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Ziegler, Micah S, Song, Juhyun and Trancik, Jessika E. 2021. "Determinants of lithium-ion battery technology cost decline." Energy and Environmental Science, 14 (12).
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