High-nickel NMC cathode is becoming more and more popular, because with increased nickel content, the energy density is increased and at the same time the cost is reduced. Presently, NMC 622 has been commercialized. The higher nickel composition, NMC 811, has higher capacity and tolerates higher material loadings and even better rate performance, so it will become the material of choice if its increased instability can be controlled. However, the request on energy density is keeping going up due to the application requirement, which needs not only the materials optimization, but also the electrode/battery engineering to maximally reduce the irreversible capacity loss. Our initial studies have found that most capacity loss for NMC cathode is kinetically limited, especially the much slower diffusion at the end of relithiation (Figure 1). Through electrode/battery engineering, the kinetics limits can be reduced/eliminated and the capacity loss would be recovered. This work was supported by the Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Office of Vehicle Technologies of the U.S. Department of Energy, through the Advanced Battery Materials Research Program (Battery500 Consortium).