{"id":966,"date":"2007-12-11T02:45:17","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T02:45:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/12\/11\/german-battery\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T14:03:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T14:03:49","slug":"german-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/12\/11\/german-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"German battery could jump-start electric cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/litec.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" alt=\"Litec\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/files\/2012\/07\/litec.jpg\"  style=\"float: left;margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a><br \/> A German company might have found the solution to the biggest problem encountered by current batteries: too large, overheating and limited power. Indeed, Li-Tec unveiled new batteries which \u201ctake up 30% less volume than those from Toyota\u201c and \u201callow you to go three times further for the same weight than French models, \u201c according to Li Tec director Tim Schaefer. <\/p>\n<p>This is an unusual bold statement but the German company received support from Bosch and Bosch&#8217;s spokeman didn&#8217;t hesitate to declare that the batteries were \u201ca step towards totally electric cars.\u201c What differentiates the Li-Tec batteries from others is that the electrodes are separated by a flexible ceramic membrane which provides greater thermal stability. Overheating is a major problem encountered by current batteries. Toyota postponed the next-generation Prius due to overheating problems.<\/p>\n<p>Despite such an enthusiastic tone, the batteries are at an early stage and there is still a long path before producing the batteries at an industrial scale. Li-Tec has joined a consortium that includes Bosch, chemical giant BASF and German car maker Volkswagen to develop the product. German industry is determined to take the lead on batteries and electric cars. How will Toyota react?<\/p>\n<p>Source: li-tec.de<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A German company might have found the solution to the biggest problem encountered by current batteries: too large, overheating and limited power. Indeed, Li-Tec unveiled new batteries which \u201ctake up 30% less volume than those from Toyota\u201c and \u201callow you to go three times further for the same weight than French models, \u201c according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":351,"featured_media":5015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","category-vw"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>German battery could jump-start electric cars - Petrol Head<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.thesocialmedia.com\/petrol-head\/2007\/12\/11\/german-battery\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"German battery could jump-start electric cars - Petrol Head\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"A German company might have found the solution to the biggest problem encountered by current batteries: too large, overheating and limited power. 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