EU RESEARCHERS DEVELOP NEW TYPE OF ZINC-POLYMER ELECTRIC BATTERY
July 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project will this month start developing a prototype polymer-zinc car battery, significantly lighter, safer and more environment-friendly than existing batteries. Their lead acid, lithium and nickel bases have waste disposal, weight and chemical stability problems. They can also be slow to charge and sometimes unsafe. However, by using zinc and conducting polymers, the Euro EUR3.5 million PolyZion project wants to make electric cars more competitive by making their batteries lighter, more powerful, easier to ...
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