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Cakes77 Champion Author Harrisburg Posts:5,290 Points:1,678,270 Joined:Aug 2006	Message Posted: Jul 24, 2012 8:29:11 PM Ignore Cakes77 Report Abuse For shoppers who might consider an electric vehicle if not for the dread range anxiety, much blame can be assigned to the best battery that electro-chemists and engineers have developed for mass production: the lithium-ion battery. But science may find a way. Researchers at the University of St. Andrews have demonstrated an early form of a much more capable electrochemical cell, based around the lithium-air battery. A lithium-air battery pack could provide four to 10 times more energy density per mass unit than conventional lithium-ion batteries can, the researchers claim. “We know that lithium-ion has limits,” Peter G. Bruce, a chemist at the University of St. Andrews, in Fife, Scotland, and a battery specialist “for longer than I care to think of,” said in a telephone interview. “We ne Visit NY Times for full article

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For shoppers who might consider an electric vehicle if not for the dread range anxiety, much blame can be assigned to the best battery that electro-chemists and engineers have developed for mass production: the lithium-ion battery.

But science may find a way. Researchers at the University of St. Andrews have demonstrated an early form of a much more capable electrochemical cell, based around the lithium-air battery. A lithium-air battery pack could provide four to 10 times more energy density per mass unit than conventional lithium-ion batteries can, the researchers claim.

“We know that lithium-ion has limits,” Peter G. Bruce, a chemist at the University of St. Andrews, in Fife, Scotland, and a battery specialist “for longer than I care to think of,” said in a telephone interview. “We ne
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Cakes77 Champion Author Harrisburg Posts:5,290 Points:1,678,270 Joined:Aug 2006	Message Posted: Jul 25, 2012 7:03:22 AM Ignore Cakes77 Report Abuse Thanks folks,for your few nice comments on this article. Keep them coming!
dave27johnson Champion Author Chicago Posts:1,823 Points:433,070 Joined:Feb 2012	Message Posted: Jul 25, 2012 5:43:44 AM Ignore dave27johnson Report Abuse A good start, but it lost 5% of its power after 100 cycles.
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