{"id":82954,"date":"2018-09-25T06:22:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T13:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/tenfold-improvement-in-liquid-batteries-mean-electric-car-refuelling-could-take-minutes"},"modified":"2018-09-25T11:02:25","modified_gmt":"2018-09-25T18:02:25","slug":"tenfold-improvement-in-liquid-batteries-mean-electric-car-refuelling-could-take-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/09\/tenfold-improvement-in-liquid-batteries-mean-electric-car-refuelling-could-take-minutes","title":{"rendered":"Tenfold improvement in liquid batteries mean electric car refuelling could take minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tenfold-improvement-in-liquid-batteries-mean-electric-car-refuelling-could-take-minutes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the biggest drawbacks of electric vehicles \u2013 that they require hours and hours to charge \u2013 could be obliterated by new type of liquid battery that is roughly ten times more energy-dense than existing models, according to Professor Lee Cronin, the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, UK.<\/p>\n<p><b><b>What\u2019s so special about this liquid, or flow, battery?<\/b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cA normal electric vehicle has a solid battery, and when that runs out of charge you have to recharge it by plugging it in to a power socket. This takes half an hour or so if you find a rapid charger at a motorway service station, or up to 12 hours at home. Our battery, however, is made of a liquid rather than a solid. If you run out of charge, you could in principle pump out the depleted liquid and \u2013 like a regular petrol or diesel vehicle \u2013 refill it with liquid that is ready-charged. And that would take minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-09-tenfold-liquid-batteries-electric-car.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;09-tenfold-liquid-batteries-electric-car.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the biggest drawbacks of electric vehicles \u2013 that they require hours and hours to charge \u2013 could be obliterated by new type of liquid battery that is roughly ten times more energy-dense than existing models, according to Professor Lee Cronin, the Regius Chair of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow, UK. What\u2019s so [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1497,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-energy","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82954","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=82954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82976,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82954\/revisions\/82976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}