Thursday, 23rd
August 2018 Motoring
New battery technology could charge an electric car in seconds
A new type of ener-
gy storage system could revolutionise energy stor- age and drop the charg- ing time of electric cars from hours to seconds it has been claimed by a research team at the Uni- versity of Glasgow.
in the
In a study published journal Nature
Chemistry, chemists from the University show how they have developed
a
flow battery system using a nano-molecule that can store electric power or hy- drogen gas giving a new type
of hybrid energy
storage system. The ‘hybrid-elec-
tric-hydrogen’ flow bat- tery, based upon the design of a nanoscale bat- tery molecule can store energy, releasing the pow- er on demand as electric power or hydrogen gas that can be used as fuel. When a concentrated liquid containing the na- no-molecules is made, the amount of energy it can store increases by almost 10 times.
One potential benefit of this system is that elec-
tric cars could be charged in seconds, as the mate- rial is a pumpable liquid. This could mean that the battery of an electric car could be “recharged” in roughly the same length of time as petrol cars can be filled up. The old battery liquid would be removed at the same time and recharged ready to be used again.
Professor Leroy Cronin
from Glasgow University said, “For future renew- ables to be effective high capacity and flexible en- ergy storage systems are
needed to smooth out the peaks and troughs in supply. Our approach will provide a new route to do this electrochemically and could even have ap- plication in electric cars where batteries can still take hours to recharge and have limited capacity. Moreover, the very high energy density of our material
could increase
the range of electric cars, and also increase the re- silience of energy storage systems to keep the lights on at times of peak de- mand.”
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Blue Print delivers Yaris MMT advice The Toyota Yaris has
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A common mainte- nance issue
with the
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