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New Carbon-Based Battery to Revolutionize Electric Vehicles

Everything from your smartphone to the Nissan Leaf in the parking lot is powered by rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries, in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to the positive one during discharge and vice versa when charging. However, they come with a lot of disadvantages...
Carbon-Carbon Ryden Battery 1 photo
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Overheating, long charging times, limited power density, relative short lifetime and the fact they are not 100 percent recyclable are their major setbacks. But these will soon disappear when the new carbon-based battery will replace them.

The concept of a battery made using carbon dates back from the 70s, but starting around 7 years ago Power Japan Plus started to improve the idea and now are presenting us the “Ryden” ('god of thunder' in Japan) disruptive carbon battery.

Both of its electrodes are made out of processed cotton which is turned into a new form of carbon fiber. The electrolyte in the battery is also made out of an organic fluid, meaning that there are no toxic materials in there at all and the whole battery is 100% recyclable.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg, as the Rayden batteries are said to recharge 20 times faster than current Li-Ion counterparts and pack a lot more punch in them at the same time, which will possibly make for a 300-mile electric vehicle trip possible.

Using such batteries, a Nissan Leaf is said to be fully charged in 12 minutes instead of 4 hours, while the Tesla Model S will do it in 45 minutes. Now imagine how your smartphone will be fully charged in around 3 minutes or so.

Another great advantage of the Rayden battery is that it can last up to 3,000 charge-discharge cycles, which is around three times more than current batteries and it won’t heat up whatever you do with it.

Power Japan said it’s planing to start production of 18,650 such carbon cells later this year for specialty applications like medical devices and satellites. The company also plans to license the technology to automakers to use in their EVs or hybrids.

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