In the current scenario, it is preferable to maintain a clean and renewable environment. Battery companies are frequently experimenting to find denser, lighter, cheaper, and more powerful batteries. The coming soon batteries will change the future of power in the electric vehicle world. These battery technologies will transform the potential of what we have options right now.
Let’s see what are these battery technologies and their advantages.
Scientists have innovated a new technology that allows batteries to be charged up to five times faster than currently available limits without affecting performance or overheating. With actual materials and cell designs, Lithium-ion (Li-ion) technology is expected to reach an energy limit in the coming years. However, very recent innovations of new families of disruptive active materials should unleash present limits. These innovative combinations can store more lithium in negative and positive electrodes and will allow for the first time to combine power and energy.
ADVANTAGES
Li-ion battery technology permits the highest level of energy density among all the state of the art storage technologies. Further, these batteries will display additional advantages like low self-discharge, long lifetime performance. Performances like temperature operating window (-50°C up to 125°C) or fast charge can be fine-tuned by the large choice of cell design and chemistries.
EXPECTED TIME
The new generation of advanced Li-ion batteries is expected to be deployed before the first generation of solid-state batteries.
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries work on a different pattern and unlike Li-ion batteries. There are no host structures in Li-S unlike Li-ion batteries as lithium ions are stored in active materials as stable host structures. Sulfur gets transformed into a different chemical compound during charging, and reverse the process.
ADVANTAGES
This kind of battery uses very light active materials so its theoretical energy density is extraordinarily high and four times greater than Li-ion. This makes a big deal in the aviation and space industries. Thanks to the superior gravimetric energy density, which helped this technology to be invented.
EXPECTED TIME
This technology is expected to reach the market immediately after solid-state Li-ion. Major technology barriers have already been sorted and it is progressing quickly towards full-scale prototypes.
Numerous kinds of batteries are likely to come to the market as hi-tech progress continues. These batteries have improved energy performance and safety. Let’s accept the changes and make this planet greener with the use of electric vehicles.