Back in October, Toyota corporation said it found a way to monitor the status of individual cells in the lithium-ion batteries, allowing time to anticipate the deterioration of their performance or even prevent a fire. charge storage density in this case was able to increase. For example, a rechargeable battery version of Toyota Prius explained that the doubling of battery capacity was accompanied by an increase in their size only by two-thirds, while supply increased only half as much.
This week, Toyota experts have decided to share their discoveries with the public, and Forbes Publishing employees with their usual pragmatism explain why it happened. The fact that investigators have used Toyota world's most powerful synchrotron (accelerator of charged particles) SPring-8, which is located in Japan. He needed to "look" inside the lithium-ion batteries and understand the behavior of ions in different phases of the battery operation. Rental equipment would cost Toyota at $ 600 per hour, but the obligation to publish the results of their research removes the question of payment, and in this case the synchrotron can be used free of charge.
Toyota Specialists claim that the behavior of ion monitoring method developed by them will allow a few years to create traction batteries for electric vehicles, surpassing the existing capacity of the samples as much as 15%. It is equally important that manufacturers will have more means to control the condition of the battery. Malfunctions and loss of capacity can be predicted in advance, and the risk of fire is significantly reduced. Related Products :
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