Today's electric cars are fairly limited in how far they can go without being recharged. IBM's investment in a new battery technology may be changing that.International Business Times reports:
"The company [IBM] will begin a project to develop lithium metal-air batteries that perform 10 times better, are lighter and more compact than today's lithium-ion batteries. For the project, IBM's Research unit will partner with U.S. laboratories to develop a technology that uses lithium metal to react with oxygen in the air, resulting in a storage capacity of more than 5,000 watt-hours per kilogram, more than ten times the capacity of today's lithium-ion batteries. A battery with this technology is expected to run for 500 miles, IBM said according to MIT." See full article.
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