Smaller & More Powerful Batteries

Leave it to MIT. Harvard produces people who make money for nothing and MIT produces people who make money for something.

Im glad were constantly adding new innovations

Considering that electric cars have been around since 1895, isnt time we had cheap & efficient family & business electric transpo that folks werent afraid of being stranded in?

Don't be hatin' on batteries. Whether they are used for hybrid cars or all-electric cars, some form of battery will be important for the foreseeable future. Any technological advancement in batteries, hydrogen, and fusion is a step towards our energy future, and a help to put foreign oil in our rear-views mirrors.
We have a long way to go in the process, but let's not bemoan the baby steps needed to get started.
It's not about being a greenie-weinie, it's about doing what make sense economically and for our future energy security - which will be synonymous with our national security very soon.

For Americans to really accept electric vehicles they need to standardize the batteries and make then quck and easy to change out. Instead of gas you would pull into a battery station pay a fee and swap out with with a fresh one. Charging at home is OK but waht do you do when a fully electric car goes dead on the road.

The freakin' Flux Capacitor!

You know, I've posted repeatedly about new battery technology coming out of MIT, but the VAST majority of the people in the industry, government, and the general public can't understand anything about physics, electronics or materials engineering. The "new" technology here is getting old now. If the DOE wants cleaner technology why didn't they pump 1/2 billion dollars into new battery tech? Idiots everywhere, government, industry (short sighted executives) and mostly the media.

When electric cars become practical and economical, the middle east will
be downgraded by Moody's to single-ply toilet paper status.

Didn't they come up with a better lithium battery a year or two ago? Where is it?

my girlfriends vibrator goes thru batteries like crazy!! needs new ones once a week they need to design better batteries for that first!!!

So what is the company I should invest in ?

Batery technology must be very difficult
Thomas Edison was working on a new battery for his
electric car when everyone started buying the first Fords.
That was a long time ago.

Love it hope it works!

but what about the Dylithium Crystals Captain?

Quit screwing around and start building natural gas autos and refueling stations.
We have more natural gas than any country on earth and could put a screeching
halt to oil imports.

Folks...it has always been about battery technology. We had electric cars more than 100 years ago. Battery technology has been what has struggled, as GM's EV1 was a wonderful vehicle, but battery tech was not there. And there is nothing wrong with GM's VOLT either. If you crash a vehicle, and the battery is disconnected in major wrecks with gasoline cars. You have to do the same with electrics. But as battery tech gets better, so will electric cars! Thanks MIT and all the other labs working on this!

The problem with electric cars is that you will have to buy the electricity from the DWP and they will raise their prices as demand rises, then when demand goes down they will raise their prices again because they will claim their not making enough money. You might think green energy is good but it will triple the cost of your electricity because they cities will have to man dual systems requiring more man power with a different set of skills.

This is great news. So what factory in China will be building these, and how many new new chinese jobs will it create? We here in the USA are clinging to the edge of our seat for the answers to these questions. Ummmmm, will this new battery be available at Walmart soon?

1890 morrison electric car could travel 100 miles without recharging, and that car was made out of real metal, today's electric cars get about 60 miles per charge. Just thought I would mention it because I keep reading all these comments from the left saying that the bugs will work themselves out with time, I guess 121 years is still not enough.

Even if they design a lighter and cheaper battery, it will be built in China.