Just saw an ad for 12V lithium battery packs (yawn), but something caught my eye. The company "GBS" is advertising that their LFP packs are noticeably smaller per watt-hour than the competition, and the only difference seems to be the addition of manganese (to increase energy density?). The element Mn is well-known from a few years ago, when LiMn battery packs were popular between the ancient Lead-Acid/NiMH era, and the modern Li-NCA/Li-NCM we use today.
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