A new way to charge electric cars: Fill up with electrolytes

[Mark]

A new way to charge electric cars: Fill up with electrolytes:
http://www.greenbang.com/a-new-way-to-c ... 12100.html

Imagine being able to recharge your electric car battery as easily as filling the tank in a petrol-driven car. Researchers in Germany think they’ve found the answer in a new type of redox flow battery. Using such a battery, motorists with electric cars could simply go to the gas station and exchange the discharged electrolyte fluid with recharged fluid.

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[PS_RalphW]

Doh. Wet batteries predate dry batteries by about a century. Nothing new under the sun.

Dry batteries were a great invention because you didn't have any of that nasty sulphiric acid slopping about. Scarred a lot of geeks back in the 1920s...