{"id":3264,"date":"2023-03-08T15:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2023-03-08T15:10:59","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T15:10:59","slug":"evs-could-travel-five-times-further-with-new-battery-tech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=3264","title":{"rendered":"EVs could travel five times further with new battery tech"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A new type of automotive battery technology could be used to increase the range of electric vehicles (EVs) by up to five times.<br><br>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, to be used in automotive applications.<br><br>Lithium-sulpher batteries were previously unsuitable for EVs as they could only be cycled (discharged and recharged) 10 times, rather than the 1,000-plus that\u2019s required.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"308\" data-attachment-id=\"3267\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?attachment_id=3267\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?fit=555%2C427\" data-orig-size=\"555,427\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"lithium-sulpher-battery_w555\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?fit=555%2C427\" class=\"wp-image-3267\" style=\"width: 400px;\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=400%2C308\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?w=555 555w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=300%2C231 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/lithium-sulpher-battery_w555.jpg?resize=210%2C162 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/latest-fleet-news\/electric-fleet-news\/2022\/01\/14\/evs-could-travel-five-times-further-with-new-battery-tech\">https:\/\/www.fleetnews.co.uk\/news\/latest-fleet-news\/electric-fleet-news\/2022\/01\/14\/evs-could-travel-five-times-further-with-new-battery-tech<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, to be used in [&hellip;]<\/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-3264","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-QE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3177,"url":"http:\/\/tomdenton.org\/blog\/?p=3177","url_meta":{"origin":3264,"position":0},"title":"Battery breakthroughs","author":"Tom Denton","date":"March 12, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that much more research is going into EVs, rather than ICE vehicles, the developments will keep coming - IMHO! 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