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  • An Electric Car That Actually Goes Far?

    07/24/2012 2:48:37 AM PDT · by neverdem · 37 replies
    ScienceNOW ^ | 19 July 2012 | Robert F. Service
    Enlarge Image Stable Ride. The performance of new lithium-air batteries is nearly unchanged after 100 charge and discharge cycles, which could bode well for their future use in electric vehicles. Credit: (car) Tony Hisgett/ Wikimedia;(graph) Adapted from Z. Peng et al., Science Researchers have long had high hopes for lithium-air batteries, a device that has the potential to store 10 times more energy than the best lithium-ion batteries on the market today. But so far, lithium-air batteries have been unstable, falling apart after a few charges. Now researchers report that they've made the first stable lithium-air batteries. If the...