The aviation industry is experiencing a paradigm shift as electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, electric planes, and flying cars are poised to revolutionize transportation. However, the widespread adoption of these electric aircraft relies heavily on advancements in battery technology.
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Researchers at the University of New South Wales have made a significant breakthrough in the development of solid-state batteries, which could potentially revolutionize the battery industry. One of the major challenges in the use of batteries is their capacity loss due to repeated charging and discharging.
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Dec
A new technology promises a revolution with four times the energy density and at a fraction of the cost of lithium-ion batteries. As the world turns its back on fossil fuels that are destroying the planet, our lives increasingly revolve around batteries.
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An environmentally degradable battery could make electronic devices, land and air vehicles safer and alleviate the difficulties associated with e-waste disposal.
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China’s CATL announced that they have made a sodium-ion battery. Production of the new automotive batteries, which are much more cold tolerant than lithium batteries, will start in 2023.
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Higher energy density, lower environmental impact, longer lifetime, orders of magnitude shorter charging time, less flammable, cheaper production, to name just a few of the futuristic goals of dozens of battery technology research labs. But the basic research is still going on.
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