[EVDL] Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries

2015-04-07 Thread Ben Goren via EV
Does anybody know any more about this research? http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/aluminum-ion-battery-033115.html Aluminum anode; graphite cathode. Unspecified salt for the electrolyte. It's only about two volts. The rest of the specs are vague...nothing at all about capacity. They

Re: [EVDL] Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries

2015-04-07 Thread Peter Gabrielsson via EV
It sure looks interesting, more information here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14340.html If I did the math correctly it seems like it's in the 120-140 wh/kg range. Certainly usable for EVs. Hopefully it makes it out of the lab. On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 1:11 PM,