New Lithium-Oxygen Battery Could One Day Power Electric Cars
The Cambridge University proposes to use a new type of batteries - Lithium-oxygen.
Cambridge University scientists are working on creating a new type of batteries - Lithium-oxygen. New batteries will significantly increase the cruising range of electric vehicles, and thus will be more profitable to their lithium-ion analogues, according to Financial Times.
It is not a secret that the power-reserve is a key for electric vehicles. And, despite of this fact most motorists prefer to buy a car that runs on traditional fuels - gasoline and diesel. However, the invention of scientists from Cambridge can make a real revolution in the auto industry, because they promise that, thanks to the lithium-oxygen batteries reserve of electric vehicles will increase!
Experts say that a standard set of lithium-oxygen batteries for electric vehicle would be about five times lighter than its lithium-ion analog and five times cheaper.
Experts from Cambridge stipulated that it would take at least 10 years before the lithium-oxygen batteries will go into mass production.
