MIT Spinout’s Lithium Metal Battery Doubles Power Density vs. Lithium Ion
August 19th, 2016Batteries for the drone market ship in late 2016. Consumer electronics, early 2017. Electric cars, 2018.
Via: MIT News:
Putting these new batteries in electric vehicles as well could represent “a huge societal impact,” Hu says: “Industry standard is that electric vehicles need to go at least 200 miles on a single charge. We can make the battery half the size and half the weight, and it will travel the same distance, or we can make it the same size and same weight, and now it will go 400 miles on a single charge.”
