Volkswagen is preparing an innovative battery for electric vehicles Bashny.Net

Worthless for one of the leaders of the global automotive industry to be on the margins of the segment of electric vehicles, I thought the Volkswagen group, decided to engage seriously on fixing the defects. Following the announcement that by 2018 in the line of the German auto giant will be four dozen vehicles with hybrid and electric drive type, followed by a statement that the company's engineers are actively developing innovative lithium-air battery, which will significantly increase the range of Autonomous run today's electric vehicles, making their market more flexible to create new models.

The main advantage of technology is a three-fold increase in energy density in batteries is not driving at the same time increase their weight. The latter is particularly important in light of the fact that modern lithium-ion batteries and so extraordinarily heavy, and increase their capacity leads to increased weight, and, consequently, a decrease in dynamics.





Included in the Board of Volkswagen AG, Heinz Jakob Nesser reported that the main task of the designers now is to develop a 80-kilowatt battery of new type which would be suitable for the architecture of most Volkswagen models. In case of successful completion of the initiated, the maximum mileage model e-Golf, for example, would have increased to levels current flagship electric cars — Tesla Model S. this, in turn, would allow less than ten charges, taking companion to Krasnoyarsk on the website www.poehali-vmeste.net to get there from Moscow.

It should be noted that lithium-air batteries, the chemical reaction which occurs with the active participation of oxygen, excite the minds of scientists for half a century. But in all that time irresistible to designers had a few problems: the high cost of such batteries, as well as insufficient technological development and the quality of the electrolyte. In recent years, new solutions have allowed to get closer to the goal of creating a lithium-air battery, in which there was a distinct prospect of a serial application.

Source: zeleneet.com