So when you think that solid state Lithium battery will be the main power unit for future electric cars, you better read on.........
In a Lithium-ion battery powered car, there are 3 ways to re-charge the battery, plug it to a dedicated high current power supply for a 15 minutes fast charge for upto 80% capacity, plug it to a standard home plug for a least 8 hours+ for a full recharge, or replace the battery packs with a freshly charged ones which is a bit impractical.
Here comes the Vabadium Flow Battery, when the electricity runs dry, you can connect it to the power plug for a conventional recharge OR pump out the Vabadium fluid and pump in fully charged Vabadium fluid, which probably takes about the same duration for pumping in petrol in a conventional fossil fuel car in a petrol station.
Their biggest disadvantage is the apparent low energy density, approximately just 1/8 as compare to top end Lithium battery, so until the energy density can be optimized closer to Lithium battery, we won't see any Vabadium Flow Battery in electric car yet.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091012135506.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van ... ite_note-Scienced-6
Vabadium Flow Battery is already used in large scale wind farms for energy storage, so this technology is already in deployment.
http://www.metaefficient.com/ren ... ore-wind-power.html |
