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New battery design by MIT could be perfect solution for electric vehicles

Posted by Electrical Engineering Department on 13 June 2011 | 2 Comments

Tags: Electric Vehicle, Battery, Semi Flow Cells

A group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology students may have come up with the perfect solution to our electric vehicles. Instead of relying on lithium or nickel, the new battery design stores its electrons in semi-solid flow cells. Charged particles are suspended in an electrolyte solution and pumped between compartments used for storing or releasing energy. The tech supposedly makes the batteries up to ten times more efficient than their traditional counterparts, and even more importantly, the new tech is cheaper to produce. Estimates say that the design could cut the size and expense of current batteries by as much as 50 percent.

Following are a few weblinks that will provide you more detailed information about the design :

• MIT News
• Wiley Online Library
• The Atlantic Wire News