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Research presented at the meeting of the America Chemical Society suggests that the current dominant technology for electric vehicles, lithium-ion, could be surpassed by batteries employing air as the cathode. At present most electric vehicles on the market today have a range less than 200km on a single charge. To […]

Lithium-air batteries have become a hot research area in recent years: They hold the promise of drastically increasing power per battery weight, which could lead, for example, to electric cars with a much greater driving range. But bringing that promise to reality has faced a number of challenges, including the […]

As part of its Battery 500 project — an initiative started by IBM in 2009 to produce a battery capable of powering a car for 500 miles — Big Blue has successfully demonstrated a light-weight, ultra-high-density, lithium-air battery. In IBM’s lithium-air battery, oxygen is reacted with lithium to create lithium […]