Hope for Electrical Power Cars in your near future
Today I will expose again the novel rechargeable batteries developed by A123 Systems. With their new technology they claim to have created a battery breakthrough with a technology that increases performance, packages with larger storage capacity and reducing the recharge times. These advances would hopefully open the door for some real progress in the adoption of electrical and hybrids vehicles.
The secret behind the leaping success of their technology is within the small structure of the particles that construct the batteries in comparison with conventional lithium-ion batteries currently in the market. Current lithium-ion batteries active materials are in the range in sizes of 5 to 20 microns. A123 Systems batteries created a high power battery based on a safe and stable active material that can user particle sizes below 100 nanometers without adverse reactions that would become a safety risk. The technology used by A123 replaces the old cobalt oxide in lithium-ion cells with nanophosphate.
Factors simultaneously addressed behind the new battery technology are the ones that have been affecting the performance and adoption of electrical power devices and electric cars. These advancements address higher power, more safety and long life.
Technology advancements like theses can get many very excited. Companies like DeWalt, are currently using this technology right now in power tools that can deliver better performance than their power plug-in counter parts. Everything thanks to the ability of the A123 Systems batteries higher performance and power density, they can deliver higher chuck or burst of electric power in a smaller form factor. And the added convenience of been able to get recharged in minutes vs. hours, wish makes it a very good option for electric/hybrid cars.
Currently, General Motors (GM) announced their intention in adopting these batteries for their soon to be put into production electric/hybrid vehicle the Volt and the Saturn Green Line Vue, a plug-in hybrid.
Let’s just hope that technologies advances like these are rapidly put into the engineering and manufacturing of electric and hybrid vehicles in a not so distant future on most car companies.
Resources:
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/robotics/2007-03-15-batteries_N.htm
