Start-up takes off with battery for electric car which allows you to Provence can drive

Science of A car battery that a single charge at up to 1,000 kilometres can afmalen. The Swiss company Innolith claims that they dream to achieve. Moreover, would their new lithium-ion battery of high energy density also have a longer life span. Would it? Skeptics want to see first.

The company claims to be the first rechargeable battery of 1,000 Wh/kg. The unit of watt-hour per kilogram is used to set the energy density of batteries indicate. For comparison: the battery of the Tesla Model 3 will need to make do with an estimated 250 Wh/kg, which is expected to have increased to 330 Wh/kg. Meanwhile, the US Department of Energy engaged in a program to batteries of 500 Wh/kg to produce.

in other words: if the allegation of Innolith right, then the competition is far ahead. Roughly four times better than the current batteries of Tesla, three times stronger than the expected improved versions, and two times better than what the Us department of Energy has in mind. “A great and important leap,” admits CEO of Innolith, Alan Greenshields.

Range of such a battery: 1,000 kilometres. So you drive an electric car to the south of France. The most expensive Tesla s today with their batteries of Panasonic for a range of around 530 kilometers, also the standard by which the competition aspires. The Danish electric car manufacturer Henrik Fisker put it all on powerful solid-batteries, with an expected range to about 800 km. But that technology is still not on point.