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To: Moonman62

How are they doing on driveable miles per charge? The last I heard it was about 200 miles.

There’s new aluminum battery technology that looks very promising in its prototype stages. This UK article describes it.

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2015/04/super-fast-charging-aluminium-batteries-aluminum-ready-take-lithium


18 posted on 05/18/2015 7:46:22 PM PDT by concernedcitizen76 (Term limits. Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments. Sunset bureaucracies.)
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To: concernedcitizen76

I wish I had a dollar for every promising battery technology I’ve seen over the years.

From your link:

At present, he says, the battery’s energy density is limited by the bulky AlCl4- ions. ‘Hopefully this work can really open up more research in this area,’ he adds.


21 posted on 05/18/2015 7:59:41 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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