'Fuel battery' could take cars beyond petrol


	'Fuel battery' could take cars beyond petrol

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7-26-2008 1:16 AM

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</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14401-fuel-battery-could-take-cars-beyond-petrol.html?feedId=tech_rss20"><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Colin Barras</LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14401-fuel-battery-could-take-cars-beyond-petrol.html?feedId=tech_rss20"><P>A new approach to storing electrical energy can store more energy than gasoline in the same volume, and could help extend the range of electric vehicles. But some experts say other approaches are more practical.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14401-fuel-battery-could-take-cars-beyond-petrol.html?feedId=tech_rss20"><P>The biggest technological hurdle facing electric vehicles is their range. Even the best rechargeable batteries cannot match the density of energy stored in a fuel tank.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14401-fuel-battery-could-take-cars-beyond-petrol.html?feedId=tech_rss20"><P>Combining electric power with a combustion engine to make a <A href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18324643.500-hybrid-cars-driven-by-rising-oil-prices.html" linkindex="23">hybrid electric vehicle</A> sidesteps that problem. But a new take on electrical power storage that is part <A target="ns" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_(electricity)" linkindex="24" set="yes">battery</A>, part chemical <A target="ns" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell" linkindex="25">fuel cell</A> could ditch gasoline for good.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14401-fuel-battery-could-take-cars-beyond-petrol.html?feedId=tech_rss20"><P>The new design stores energy more densely than petrol, and was conceived by <A target="ns" href="http://alpha.chem.umb.edu/faculty/licht/" linkindex="26">Stuart Licht</A> of the University of Massachusetts, Boston, and colleagues.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://technology.newscientist.com/channel/tech/dn14401-fuel-battery-could-take-cars-beyond-petrol.html?feedId=tech_rss20">He imagines drivers swapping exhausted vanadium boride electrodes for fresh ones at filling stations.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C276B3EC-3BDC-4544-987E-0A5AFEBA21CE/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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