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Lithium-Air Batteries Could be Ten Times More Powerful Than Current Batteries
Nov. 03, 2015 10:35AM PST
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Mashable reported that researchers at the University of Cambridge are looking to create lithium-air batteries, with around ten times the energy density of today’s lithium-ion batteries. The researchers have put together a simple laboratory demonstration using the technology.
Mashable reported that researchers at the University of Cambridge are looking to create lithium-air batteries, with around ten times the energy density of today’s lithium-ion batteries. The researchers have put together a simple laboratory demonstration using the technology.
As quoted in the publication:
More than simply holding more energy, the batteries are also more than 90% efficient and can be recharged more than 2,000 times, the study says. To put that into perspective, most current lithium-ion batteries are 80% to 90% efficient.
… Although the researchers have demonstrated the batteries in a lab, they predict that a production-ready version is around a decade away. So while your next car might not have lithium-air batteries underpinning it, the one after that just might. And as far as smartphones go, we can hope for the iPhone 18.
