1000 km e-car rangeThe biggest hurdle that battery-powered car (and manufacturers had was the range a car was allowed to have. This new process could facilitate e-car adoption and manufacturing.
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Depending on the model, electric cars are equipped with hundreds to thousands of separate battery cells. Each one is surrounded by a housing, connected to the car via terminals and cables, and monitored by sensors. The housing and contacting take up more than 50 percent of the space. Therefore, the cells cannot be densely packed together as preferred. The complex design steals space. A further problem: Electrical resistances, which reduce the power, are generated at the connections of the small-scale cells. More space for batteries
Under the brand name EMBATT, the Fraunhofer Institute for Ceramic Technologies and Systems IKTS in Dresden and its partners have transferred the bipolar principle known from fuel cells to the lithium battery.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502095826.htm