ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AIDS IN ACCELERATING BATTERY DEVELOPMENT - Tech Blogs

There are a half dozen refrigerator-sized cabinets inside a lab at Stanford University's Precourt Institute for energy that is designed for killing bacteria as quickly as possible. Each contains around 100 lithium-ion cells in trays in which the batteries could be charged and discharged dozens of times each day. The batteries used in these electrochemical torture chambers would normally be found in electronics or electric vehicles. Instead, energy is transported in and out of these cells as quickly as possible, generating reams of performance data that artificial intelligence can use to learn how to make a better battery. To estimate how a battery would perform in the future, AI would require data from a battery after it had begun to degrade. It could take months to cycle the battery enough times to get the required data.