The long, winding road to advanced batteries for electric cars
Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 09:00
in Physics & Chemistry
(Phys.org) -- Batteries have come a long way since Alessandro Volta first discovered in 1800 that two unlike metals, when separated by an acidic solution, could produce an electric current. In their evolution, batteries have taken on various forms, ranging from lead-acid, to nickel-metal hydride, to current-day lithium-ion.