Promising battery tech is heading out of the lab for field testing

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An Australian science team has come up with a lithium-sulfur battery that sounds promising. It has much more capacity than standard Lithium=-ion batteries in the same form factor. Lab testing so far has been good, field testing will start this year in solar systems and cars. If successful, the promise is 5 day cellphone battery life and the potential for 600+ mi range in EVs. The battery fits within current standard packaging which will reduce manufacturing costs yet can provide up to 6x performance gain.

"Professor Mainak Majumder said this development was a breakthrough for Australian industry and could transform the way phones, cars, computers and solar grids are manufactured in the future." Could this be the one that jumpstarts the EV changeover?

www.monash.edu

Supercharging tomorrow: Australia first to test new lithium batteries

Monash University researchers are on the brink of commercialising the world’s most efficient lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery, which could outperform current market leaders by more than four times.
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Wow. Great news if it pans out. This could be the tech leap of a generation.
 
Scientists have been working on this for a while. Sony will have a cellphone that has a LiS battery coming out this year with 40% more storage. The Monash battery has several hundred percent more capacity. They approached the problem from a different direction and appear to have solved the problem of sulfur expansion under high charge.

Hoping this is the one. It would make a battery tech cheaper, more powerful, more environmentally friendly and maybe shut down the cobalt slave mines in Africa that currently supply L-ion battery tech.
 
Highbeam said:
Wow. Great news if it pans out. This could be the tech leap of a generation.
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Yes, especially if it allows rapid charging. This could be the jumpstart needed to change the transportation industry.
 
Electric vehicles could make the jump to trucks if they have 600mi ranges. That may mean 300mi towing.
 
EatenByLimestone said:
Electric vehicles could make the jump to trucks if they have 600mi ranges. That may mean 300mi towing.
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TBD, but trucks often have room for more battery capacity too. The reported energy density sounds high enough for some aviation applications too.
 
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