{"id":81757,"date":"2018-08-16T02:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T09:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/in-race-for-better-batteries-japan-hopes-to-extend-its-lead"},"modified":"2018-08-16T02:02:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T09:02:24","slug":"in-race-for-better-batteries-japan-hopes-to-extend-its-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/in-race-for-better-batteries-japan-hopes-to-extend-its-lead","title":{"rendered":"In race for better batteries, Japan hopes to extend its lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-race-for-better-batteries-japan-hopes-to-extend-its-lead.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOKYO \u2014 Imagine electric cars that can travel 700km to 800km on a single charge, twice as far as they do today. Imagine batteries that are smaller, safer and pack more punch than the lithium-ion cells that power our gadgets now.<\/p>\n<p>Such is the promise of solid-state batteries. Capable of holding more electricity and recharging more quickly than their lithium-ion counterparts, they could do to lithium-ion power cells what transistors did to vacuum tubes: render them obsolete.<\/p>\n<p>As their name implies, solid-state batteries use solid rather than liquid materials as an electrolyte. That is the stuff through which ions pass as they move between the poles of a battery as it is charged and discharged. Because they do not leak or give off flammable vapor, as lithium-ion batteries are prone to, solid-state batteries are safer. They are also more energy-dense and thus more compact.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Technology\/In-race-for-better-batteries-Japan-hopes-to-extend-its-lead\">https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/Business\/Technology\/In-race-for-bett...d-its-lead<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2014 Imagine electric cars that can travel 700km to 800km on a single charge, twice as far as they do today. Imagine batteries that are smaller, safer and pack more punch than the lithium-ion cells that power our gadgets now. Such is the promise of solid-state batteries. Capable of holding more electricity and recharging [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81757","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81757\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}