Battery Metalsby Out of the GRND
FROM EVERYDAY OBJECTS TO GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS

Open a battery.
Understand its materials.

01 / PRODUCTElectric car · representative design
Photographic illustration of a pale blue electric car
Product → Battery → Cell → Materials
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Electric car / Product
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The photographic views are created illustrations of representative products and cells. They show typical components, with spacing expanded where useful. The rotatable 3D view provides an additional diagram. Actual product construction and composition vary. The coloured overlay represents reference quantities or containing components.

Vehicle exterior: “2024 Tesla Model 3” by RBLXSupercars, shared under CC BY 4.0. Original attribution; credited public copy. Presentation changes: scale, lighting, paint and placement. The battery assemblies and phone are separately authored representative designs. The battery is not a reconstruction of this vehicle’s factory pack. Material proportions use Argonne EverBatt 2019 reference chemistry recipes, with cathode and electrolyte salts split by formula mass.