{"id":3177,"date":"2021-03-12T12:16:27","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=3177"},"modified":"2021-03-29T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T10:31:14","slug":"battery-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=3177","title":{"rendered":"Battery breakthroughs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that much more research is going into EVs, rather than ICE vehicles, the developments will keep coming &#8211; IMHO! For example:<\/p>\n<p>A new fabrication technique could allow solid-state automotive lithium-ion batteries to adopt nonflammable ceramic electrolytes using the same production processes as in batteries made with conventional liquid electrolytes.<\/p>\n<p>More here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrichybridvehicletechnology.com\/features\/researchers-discover-breakthrough-solid-state-ev-battery-manufacturing-technique.html\">https:\/\/www.electrichybridvehicletechnology.com\/features\/researchers-discover-breakthrough-solid-state-ev-battery-manufacturing-technique.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that much more research is going into EVs, rather than ICE vehicles, the developments will keep coming &#8211; IMHO! For example: A new fabrication technique could allow solid-state automotive lithium-ion batteries to adopt nonflammable ceramic electrolytes using the same production processes as in batteries made with conventional liquid electrolytes. More here: https:\/\/www.electrichybridvehicletechnology.com\/features\/researchers-discover-breakthrough-solid-state-ev-battery-manufacturing-technique.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15,49,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automotive","category-batteries","category-ev-and-hybrid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p79TdE-Pf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3264,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=3264","url_meta":{"origin":3177,"position":0},"title":"EVs could travel five times further with new battery tech","author":"Tom Denton","date":"March 8, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"A new type of automotive battery technology could be used to increase the range of electric vehicles (EVs) by up to five times.Scientists at the University of Michigan have developed a solution that enables lithium-sulpher batteries, which have a much higher capacity than the lithium-ion technology currently used in EVs,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Automotive&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Automotive","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?cat=15"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":2330,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=2330","url_meta":{"origin":3177,"position":1},"title":"Facts about battery technology for hybrid and electric powertrains","author":"Tom Denton","date":"March 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"How range is increasing, why a battery has more than one lifetime, and how automated driving could change battery technology Long service life, top quality, the highest degree of safety \u2013 we expect an enormous amount from high-voltage batteries in vehicles. 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