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Professor M Stanley Whittingham is a pioneering researcher in the development of lithium-ion batteries at Binghamton University and Kent Snyder leads battery research and development at Ford Motor Company. Nature Energy caught up with both during the Nature Conference on Materials Electrochemistry: Fundamentals and Applications held in China in January 2018.

Increasing energy density has been the major driver for the development of automobile batteries, and state-of-the-art Li-ion battery packs for electric vehicles (EV) now reach ~140 Wh kg–1 (or 210 Wh l–1). But what are the main challenges to further improve the energy density?

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