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

Posted: 13 Oct 2009, 15:51
by 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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Posted: 13 Oct 2009, 18:21
by 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...