The first water battery that your car can carry: infinite autonomy without recharging
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Everything could change now with the first water battery in history that you can carry in your current car.
The best part? It will give you infinite autonomy without the need to recharge, something that was thought to be impossible until now.
In the latest scientific news from China, a group of brilliant minds in the field has successfully invented the water battery.
This breakthrough technology could overthrow existing energy solutions worldwide.
The battery has water as its electrolyte and aluminum as the anode material.
This enables the adenosine triphosphate (ATP) to store more energy in a smaller unit of volume than the unit weight.
Surprisingly, they noticed that a single gram of anode could hold more than 10 times more energy than a lithium battery.
In addition to enhancing driving range to endless distance thus substitute the use of petrol, the technology will offer extended battery life in consumer products and the improved storage facility of power sources from renewable energy.
With more advancements under its belt, the water battery becomes the next disruptor in the energy storage market that will probably outpace the now-dominant lithium-ion batteries as it happened during the lithium-ion battery revolution.
The Chinese water battery created by the scientists differs from the regular lithium-ion type batteries in a way that the new model works different.
Reducing the lithium ion movement that takes place between the anode and cathode, instead the charge carrier is water molecules.
Mean while, cathode is made of manganese oxide, and anode contains aluminum.
In this process, the water molecules (H2O), which are in the cells, donate the electrons to the manganese oxide cathode to produce the positively-charged hydrogen ions (H+).
A hydrogen ion flow is prevailed in the electrochemical cell from cathode to anode through the electrolyte solution.
Electrons are makes of the same substance as the device, that carry energy through the designed circuit. While charging, the flow of electricity reverses.
This experimental water battery was devised by a team of Chinese researchers.
They conducted their experiments and tests in the laboratory.
At first, a measurement revealed that the water electrolysis yard had much greater capacity than the same sized Li-ion battery.
What do you think of the potential of this water battery for the cars of the future?
The Chinese automotive industry is advancing faster and faster, with solutions that are getting closer and closer to infinite autonomy.
Perhaps in a few years’ time, charging an electric vehicle will be seen as a thing of the past,
Ref: The first water battery that your car can carry: infinite autonomy without recharging (ecoticias)
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