{"id":196337,"date":"2024-09-18T07:26:03","date_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/massless-battery-promises-a-70-increase-in-ev-range"},"modified":"2024-09-18T07:26:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-18T12:26:03","slug":"massless-battery-promises-a-70-increase-in-ev-range","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/09\/massless-battery-promises-a-70-increase-in-ev-range","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Massless\u2019 battery promises a 70% increase in EV range"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/massless-battery-promises-a-70-increase-in-ev-range2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers say they\u2019ve built and tested a \u2018structural battery\u2019 that packs a device or EV\u2019s chassis with energy, saving a ton of weight. It could unlock smartphones as thin as credit cards, laptops at half the weight and a 70% boost to EV range.<\/p>\n<p>EVs rely heavily \u2013 pun intended \u2013 on large lithium-ion batteries to cover long distances. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology wondered if they could build a battery that doubles as the load-bearing material holding the car together, and shed some weight.<\/p>\n<p>As part of their work on what they call \u2018massless energy storage,\u2019 the research team in Sweden has developed a battery made of a carbon fiber composite. It promises similar stiffness to aluminum, while also being capable of storing a fair bit of energy \u2013 enough to be used commercially.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers say they\u2019ve built and tested a \u2018structural battery\u2019 that packs a device or EV\u2019s chassis with energy, saving a ton of weight. It could unlock smartphones as thin as credit cards, laptops at half the weight and a 70% boost to EV range. EVs rely heavily \u2013 pun intended \u2013 on large lithium-ion batteries [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1512,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-mobile-phones","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196337","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}