New Material makes Car Batteries to 600 Miles on a Single Charge

Sekisui Chemical has developed a new material that can increase the capacity of lithium ion batteries, able to make electric cars go through 600 km for a onetime charge.

This new material, which used to store electricity, using silicon material instead of conventional carbon -based. Prior silicon material chosen not to use because of security issues, it looks like the company has managed to resolve the issue. The use of new materials is also claimed to reduce production costs by 60 %.

Sekisui Chemical plans to start shipping samples of products to battery manufacturers locally and abroad next summer so that their target mass production of these batteries has been running in 2015. The problem that arises in a car that uses electric power is a short distance and the cost of making the expensive batteries. Sekisui Chemical hope the use of this environmentally friendly vehicle will be increased by minimizing the current constraint on the face.

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