Tesla is set to launch a million-mile battery as soon as this year or early in 2021 for its Model 3 in China, as part of a wider plan to introduce longer-lasting, low-cost batteries that would bring electric vehicle (EV) prices to parity with conventional gas-powered cars, Reuters reported on Thursday, citing sources familiar with the EV maker’s plans. A million-mile battery would be just one pillar of Elon Musk’s strategy to make Tesla an energy company, according to the sources. Last year, a team from the Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, who do research for Tesla, said in a paper that they had tested lithium-ion battery cell chemistry expected to be able to power electric vehicles (EVs) for more than 1 million miles and last at least two decades in grid energy storage. Jeff Dahn and his research team presented testing results of “excellent moderate-energy-density lithium-ion pouch cell […]