New battery

[arcosine]

I just read this artical that scientists and Oakridge National Laboratory developed a new battery with 4 times the capacity of lithuim-ion. An electric car that has a 100 mile range could have a 400 mile range! This could revolutionalize the tranportation industry.

Sulfur-based tech the answer to burnable lithium-ion batteries? | Cutting Edge - CNET News

[Ryland]

The expensive material in lithium batteries is the copper and aluminum and the expensive part of making them is the quality control in a 0 humidity environment where you are taking very thin sheets of the metal and printing on the lithium and other active parts of the battery, a lithium battery has about as much lithium as a book has ink, only the layers in a lithium battery are thinner then the pages of a book.