The Biobased Pathway to Batteries with 3x Today’s Top Efficiency
One battery technology that may prove a game-changer is a lithium-air battery. Going back to the theory of the battery, you get electron current flow because at the positive end of a battery you are creating free electrons through reduction, and they are flowing out of the negative end through oxidation. No need to go through the specifics — just focus on oxidation, meaning you need oxygen, which batteries usually are loaded with. And oxygen adds weight.
Hence the lithium-air battery. Acts in many ways like a Li-ion battery, only it draws its oxygen from the air. Hence it weighs less, and is more efficient. Up to 3X what a Li-ion battery can achieve — that’s the promise seen in the labs.