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Next-Gen Car Batteries Research Will Take 10 Years

The current generation of batteries still aren’t compact enough, and still can’t store enough energy to give EVs the range of a conventionally-powered vehicle. Lithium-Ion batteries have taken over the world, powering everything from cell phones to toys and cars.
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According to Tony Hancock from the DoE's Kentucky-Argonne Battery Mfg. Research and Development Center, now is not necessarily a good time to develop a new type of technology, because Lithium-Ion batteries can be developed and improved further. This is done with the same effort as is going into the separate development of an all-new technology.

Even if there would be a breakthrough in battery technology tomorrow, we’d still have to way a few years for it to make its way to the marketplace, as is the case with so many new technologies which have a very laggy transmission from concept to production line.

Currently, the focus of battery development is concentrating on making the manufacturing process cheaper, and possibly a transition to other forms of lithium-based batteries, like lithium-sodium or lithium-air tech.

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