Electric car battery with 600 miles of range? This startup claims to have done it
Electric carmakers have long been clamoring for a battery breakthrough that will improve the range of their vehicles while also extending their lifespans. Innolith, a Swiss startup, says its new high-density lithium-ion batteries can do just that.
- The company claims to have made the world's first 1,000 Wh/kg rechargeable battery.
- "It's a big jump," Innolith chairman Alan Greenshields said in an interview with The Verge .
- Most current electric cars are powered by "wet" lithium-ion batteries, which use liquid electrolytes to move energy around.
- Innolith still uses "wet" liquid electrolytes in its lithium-ion batteries, but there's one major difference: the company replaces the organic (and highly flammable) solvent containing the electrolytes with an inorganic substance that's more stable and less flammable.