An electric car has been tested that managed a huge 1,100 mile range on a single charge. A massive jump from current electric cars.
-- submitted from IRC
An electric car has been tested that managed a huge 1,100 mile range on a single charge. A massive jump from current electric cars like the Tesla Model S which tops out at around 300 miles.
The secret to this super range is a type of battery technology called aluminium-air. This uses oxygen naturally occurring in the air to fill its cathode. This makes it far lighter than liquid filled lithium-ion batteries to give car a far greater range.
Phinergy, who created the battery, is an Israeli company who worked with aluminium specialist Alcoa Canada to create the batteries.
[...] Aluminium-air batteries drain turning the metal into aluminium hydroxide which can then be recycled to make new batteries. That will mean swapping out batteries every few months. But since it's so much lighter and cheaper than current efforts it should offer huge mileage and be affordable.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 11 2015, @12:18PM
if all those paris talks were of serious nature (and not just "pull-wool-over-your-head-we're-goin'-nuclear")
then anticipate a huge new demand for aluminium for solarpanels and frames and whatnot.
i betcha the nuke lobby is doing some hard-core calculation to figure out if helping to push
this type of battery will again push up prices of solarpanels because aluminium is diverted (and
coincidentally reloaded thru nuke powerplants) for this battery and thus another new hurdle
for one of the sane ways to get electricity ...?