One of the important challenges facing mankind is to create batteries that would be better suited for use in electric transport. Modern lithium-ion cells migrated into advanced electric vehicles , but because the batteries on their base are obtained rather cumbersome, requiring cooling in hot weather and heating in cold weather.
According to the publication EETimes, Battery500 American consortium expects to find technologies to increase the storage density of the charge of modern lithium-metal batteries up to 500 W � h per kilogram of body weight. This is about three times larger than existing lithium ion batteries. On the profile of research in this area is allocated $ 50 mln., But one-fifth of this amount is reserved for first-time developers in the area of the profile around the world.
The consortium was founded by several US academic institutions and IBM. "Locomotive" of the whole organization is considered the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA, which is going to work to improve the technology and materials used to create electrolytes and electrodes. According to the consortium's founders, more advanced battery can be used not only in electric transport, but also domestic and industrial electricity storage systems. Scientists strive to make batteries
more capacious, reliable, safe and cheap.