Tuesday, December 12, 2017

A new process discovered there uses negative electrodes made of lithium metal, a material with the potential to dramatically increase battery storage capacity.
“This will mean cheap, safe, long-lasting batteries that give people much more range in their electric vehicles,” Quanquan Pang, who led the research while he was a Ph.D. candidate at Waterloo, said in a news release.
The increased storage capacity, or energy density, could boost the distance electric vehicles are able to travel on a single charge to 600 kilometres, up from the current 200 kilometres