{"id":107832,"date":"2020-05-29T16:04:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T23:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/will-a-new-glass-battery-accelerate-the-end-of-oil"},"modified":"2020-05-29T16:04:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T23:04:06","slug":"will-a-new-glass-battery-accelerate-the-end-of-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/will-a-new-glass-battery-accelerate-the-end-of-oil","title":{"rendered":"Will a New Glass Battery Accelerate the End of Oil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/will-a-new-glass-battery-accelerate-the-end-of-oil.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2017<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Electric car purchases have been on the rise lately, posting an estimated 60 percent growth rate last year. They\u2019re poised for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/features\/2016-ev-oil-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\">rapid adoption by 2022<\/a>, when EVs are projected to cost the same as internal combustion cars. However, these estimates all presume the incumbent lithium-ion battery remains the go-to EV power source. So, when researchers this week at the University of Texas at Austin unveiled a new, promising lithium- or sodium\u2013<em>glass <\/em>battery technology, it threatened to accelerate even rosy projections for battery-powered cars.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have the possibility of doing what we\u2019ve been trying to do for the last 20 years,\u201d says John Goodenough, coinventor of the now ubiquitous lithium-ion battery and emeritus professor at the Cockrell School of Engineering at the University of Texas, Austin. \u201cThat is, to get an electric car that will be competitive in cost and convenience with the internal combustion engine.\u201d Goodenough added that this new battery technology could also store intermittent solar and wind power on the electric grid.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the world has seen alleged game-changing battery breakthroughs come to naught before. In 2014, for instance, Japanese researchers <a href=\"http:\/\/powerjapanplus.com\/media\/media\/2.php\" target=\"_blank\">offered up<\/a> a <em>cotton\u2013<\/em>based (!) new battery design that was touted as \u201cenergy dense, reliable, safe, and sustainable.\u201d And if the cotton battery is still going to change the world, its promoters could certainly use a new wave of press and media releases, as an Internet search on their technology today produces links that are no more current than 2014\u20132015 vintage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2017 Electric car purchases have been on the rise lately, posting an estimated 60 percent growth rate last year. They\u2019re poised for rapid adoption by 2022, when EVs are projected to cost the same as internal combustion cars. However, these estimates all presume the incumbent lithium-ion battery remains the go-to EV power source. So, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,418,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-internet","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107832","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}