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Air-Breathing Batteries Promise To Unlock The 500-Mile Electric Car
via FastCoExist:
IBM’s Battery 500 Project removes the constraints keeping our batteries bulky, heavy and relatively weak by reformulating the chemistry. Today’s technology combines fuel and oxygen inside the battery’s material. Lithium-air batteries, on the other hand, replace this by pulling oxygen from the ambient air. These “air-breathing batteries” can then pack far more electrons into a lighter load than today’s versions. And more electrons means more power. […]
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Air-Breathing Batteries Promise To Unlock The 500-Mile Electric Car
via FastCoExist:
IBM’s Battery 500 Project removes the constraints keeping our batteries bulky, heavy and relatively weak by reformulating the chemistry. Today’s technology combines fuel and oxygen inside the battery’s material. Lithium-air batteries, on the other hand, replace this by pulling oxygen from the ambient air. These “air-breathing batteries” can then pack far more electrons into a lighter load than today’s versions. And more electrons means more power. […]
[read mroe] [IBM500] [image credit: IBM]
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Source: fastcoexist.com
