New Materials - More Energy from the Battery of the Future | Tomorrow Today

Hopes are riding on electric motors to power the cars of the future. Their Achilles heel is the batteries. They're too heavy, too short-lived and take too long to re-charge.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.