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New Materials - More Energy from the Battery of the Future

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VideoassistentenFebruary 6, 2012

Elektromotoren gelten als der Autoantrieb der Zukunft. Schwachpunkt sind heute noch die Batterien: zu schwer, zu schwach, und das Laden dauert zu lange. Forscher am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) entwickeln einen neuartigen Typ von Batterie.

Now researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) are working on a new type of battery that doesn't employ either lead or lithium. They're using metal fluoride to store three times the charge of current in state-of-the-art batteries.

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