{"id":110255,"date":"2020-07-20T21:49:39","date_gmt":"2020-07-21T04:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/battery-breakthrough-gives-boost-to-electric-flight-and-long-range-electric-cars"},"modified":"2020-07-20T21:49:39","modified_gmt":"2020-07-21T04:49:39","slug":"battery-breakthrough-gives-boost-to-electric-flight-and-long-range-electric-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/battery-breakthrough-gives-boost-to-electric-flight-and-long-range-electric-cars","title":{"rendered":"Battery breakthrough gives boost to electric flight and long-range electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/battery-breakthrough-gives-boost-to-electric-flight-and-long-range-electric-cars.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that can power electric vehicles (EVs) for hundreds of miles on a single charge, scientists have endeavored to replace the graphite anodes currently used in EV batteries with lithium metal anodes.<\/p>\n<p>But while <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/lithium\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lithium<\/a> metal extends an EV\u2019s driving range by 30\u201350%, it also shortens the battery\u2019s useful life due to lithium dendrites, tiny treelike defects that form on the lithium anode over the course of many charge and discharge cycles. What\u2019s worse, dendrites short-circuit the cells in the battery if they make contact with the cathode.<\/p>\n<p>For decades, researchers assumed that hard, solid electrolytes, such as those made from ceramics, would work best to prevent dendrites from working their way through the cell. But the problem with that approach, many found, is that it didn\u2019t stop dendrites from forming or \u201cnucleating\u201d in the first place, like tiny cracks in a car windshield that eventually spread.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the pursuit of a rechargeable battery that can power electric vehicles (EVs) for hundreds of miles on a single charge, scientists have endeavored to replace the graphite anodes currently used in EV batteries with lithium metal anodes. But while lithium metal extends an EV\u2019s driving range by 30\u201350%, it also shortens the battery\u2019s useful [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110255","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}