At the conference, EmTech, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, attended by Ann Marie Sastry - University of Michigan professor and head of Sakti3 company . She made a presentation on the development of solid-state batteries. In the near future (within a few weeks) to the public will be proposed a prototype of a lithium-ion battery, whose capacity will be approximately twice more than modern analogues. This battery, as mentioned, will be solid : will not contain a liquid electrolyte.
The main objective pursued by Sastry - is an effective element for electric power. This is understandable, since at this stage, the main sponsor of research is General Motors, it invested in the idea of Sastry and her team 3.2 million dollars.
Sakti3 Technology is truly innovative, - said John Lokner (Jon Lauckner), president of General Motors Ventures. She has no analogues on the market, and it has little in common with traditional electrochemical elements. Sakti3 Developments are able to provide a revolutionary leap in mobile power sources. And we want to be the first to apply them in practice.