{"id":102615,"date":"2020-02-21T13:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/new-battery-tech-could-double-electric-car-driving-range"},"modified":"2020-02-21T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T21:43:55","slug":"new-battery-tech-could-double-electric-car-driving-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/new-battery-tech-could-double-electric-car-driving-range","title":{"rendered":"New Battery Tech Could Double Electric Car Driving Range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-battery-tech-could-double-electric-car-driving-range.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Current-day EVs generally use graphite anode batteries, which tend to provide shorter range compared to their gas-guzzling brethren, according to the researchers. Silicon anodes, on the other hand, have ten times the capacity \u2014 but are much worse at holding their capacity over time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Frying Batteries<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The team, led by Hun-Gi Jung, came up with a way to keep these silicon anodes stable by using \u201ca simple thermal process used for frying food,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-02-high-capacity-ev-battery-materials-range.html\">a statement<\/a>, which involves the use of water, oil, and starch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current-day EVs generally use graphite anode batteries, which tend to provide shorter range compared to their gas-guzzling brethren, according to the researchers. Silicon anodes, on the other hand, have ten times the capacity \u2014 but are much worse at holding their capacity over time. Frying Batteries The team, led by Hun-Gi Jung, came up with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}