{"id":188795,"date":"2024-05-07T02:24:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/chinas-new-water-based-battery-can-revolutionize-evs"},"modified":"2024-05-07T02:24:43","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T07:24:43","slug":"chinas-new-water-based-battery-can-revolutionize-evs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/chinas-new-water-based-battery-can-revolutionize-evs","title":{"rendered":"China\u2019s new water-based battery can revolutionize EVs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/chinas-new-water-based-battery-can-revolutionize-evs2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers in China have developed a water-based battery, which is claimed to be much safer and energy-efficient than \u201chighly flammable\u201d non-aqueous lithium batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the researchers say that these new batteries will be twice as energy-dense as traditional lithium-ion options. This holds the potential to revolutionize the electric vehicle industry.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, aqueous batteries use water as the solvent for electrolytes, enhancing their safety. Traditional non-aqueous lithium-ion batteries have a high energy density, but their safety is compromised due to the flammable organic electrolytes, a <a href=\"https:\/\/interestingengineering.com\/science\/researchers-crack-120-year-old-problem-with-newompound\" rel=\"dofollow\">component<\/a> that allows the battery to charge and discharge, they utilize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers in China have developed a water-based battery, which is claimed to be much safer and energy-efficient than \u201chighly flammable\u201d non-aqueous lithium batteries. Interestingly, the researchers say that these new batteries will be twice as energy-dense as traditional lithium-ion options. This holds the potential to revolutionize the electric vehicle industry. Moreover, aqueous batteries use water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188795","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\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}