Issue 3, 2018

Batteries for electric road vehicles

Abstract

The dependence of modern society on the energy stored in a fossil fuel is not sustainable. An immediate challenge is to eliminate the polluting gases emitted from the roads of the world by replacing road vehicles powered by the internal combustion engine with those powered by rechargeable batteries. These batteries must be safe and competitive in cost, performance, driving range between charges, and convenience. The competitive performance of an electric car has been demonstrated, but the cost of fabrication, management to ensure safety, and a short cycle life have prevented large-scale penetration of the all-electric road vehicle into the market. Low-cost, safe all-solid-state cells from which dendrite-free alkali–metal anodes can be plated are now available; they have an operating temperature range from −20 °C to 80 °C and they permit the design of novel high-capacity, high-voltage cathodes providing fast charge/discharge rates. Scale-up to large multicell batteries is feasible.

Graphical abstract: Batteries for electric road vehicles

Article information

Article type
Frontier
Submitted
15 Aug. 2017
Accepted
25 Nov. 2017
First published
27 Nov. 2017

Dalton Trans., 2018,47, 645-648

Batteries for electric road vehicles

J. B. Goodenough and M. H. Braga, Dalton Trans., 2018, 47, 645 DOI: 10.1039/C7DT03026F

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