Lithium Metal Battery

There's a focus right now on moving away from energy that produces emissions and one of the best ways to do this is converting everything we use to run on electricity as long as the electricity comes from green sources major strides have been made in the past couple decades but one of the biggest limiting factors is the capability of batteries currently the most reliable and cost-effective design that's used is a lithium-ion battery but these have limits with how much they can charge and how quickly this can be done as well as some concerns about their safety if they're damaged a company called quantum scape is however developing an alternative which instead of having liquid parts like a lithium-ion battery is solid known as a lithium-metal battery the results from the company's early tests have suggested these could eventually increase the range of an electric vehicle by as much as 80 percent and can be recharged in just a fraction of the time too right now the prototypes are too large to be fitted to cars but they're expected to become much smaller in the coming years so much so that quantumscape has already signed an agreement with vw to start selling electric vehicles with the new batteries from 2025.