Lead acid (LA) battery is slowing running out of the energy storage race
compared with nickel-metal hydrides and lithium-ions that entered the
market with all the energy to win.
Nickel-metal hydride (NmH) batteries
are used in the current generation of...
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Lead acid (LA) battery is slowing running out of the energy storage race
compared with nickel-metal hydrides and lithium-ions that entered the
market with all the energy to win.
Nickel-metal hydride (NmH) batteries
are used in the current generation of hybrid cars and lithium-ion (LI)
batteries are used in mobile devices.
Many visualize LI to be the future of
electric cars.
Even with all this, what the automakers intend is to create proper energy
storage for startups and a light weight vehicle.
For this, automakers need
a lightweight battery that won’t interfere with a car’s all-electric range or
design and at the same time is light in weight.
Lead can be blamed to be
one of the heaviest elements known to science with all its environmental
hazards.
Ultra capacitors blended with the LA batteries have become the answer
to this.
They are called PbCs.
Though ultra capacitors give low energy
density and cannot measure up to the LAs in storing the power per
kilogram, they excel in ch
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