Lithium, Battery Electric Car

Lithium-ion batteries have become fixtures in personal electronic devices, soon will become the answer to rising oil prices, for use as power rechargeable electric vehicles, government, university and industry panelists. Based on the Plug-In Conference 2008 in San Jose, although the technology is very promising lithium battery, battery makers worldwide still stuck with high prices, a result of the process of charging the battery, and battery life, as well as how to keep batteries from overheating and other problems.

Tien Duong, employees who worked in the battery technology at the U.S. Energy Department, said that his party believed that lithium batteries are ready to replace the nickel metal hydride batteries currently used in many gas electric hybrid cars. Hybrid electric power has become, and the internal combustion engine vehicles. The battery can be charged with the installation or plug-ins into a conventional outlet at home. With plug-ins are usually able to produce 100 miles per gallon or 42.5 km per liter of gasoline.

Industry panelists revealed that the lithium-ion battery is better to plug-in for large storage capacity, cheap enough price, smaller size and reliable than nickel metal hydride. Harnest According to Kamath, the project manager of Electric Power Research Institute, reveals that offers Lithium Ion battery to charge every 40 miles or 64 km. However, these lithium batteries, although small in size, but due to rising world oil considered, this battery has a price of about $ 10,000.

Kamath said that the weakness of this lithium battery lithium battery when the battery is easy to heat provides more energy to the car. In addition, these batteries can also cause a fire, although some incidents with the new lithium occurred in laptops and other devices.

Auto makers, Toyota Motor Corp.. plans to use lithium-ion battery into the car in 2010, while General Motors Corp. plans to launch a Chevrolet Volt in 2010 with the battery plug-in. (h_n)

source:Heni BeritaNET.com