The University of Wollongong has signed a $250,000 research deal with one of China’s largest battery manufacturers to work on the next generation of power sources for electric cars.
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Under the partnership between the Tianneng Battery Group Company and the UoW, a research team led by Professor Zaiping Guo will work to develop a new high-energy-density lithium-ion battery.
Professor Guo, a Future Fellow at UOW’s Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences and the Institute for Superconducting and Electronic Materials within the Australian Institute of Innovative Materials, said she expected the batteries to be ready for commercial use in electric cars in 3-5 years.
“By replacing the graphite-based anode with a silicon/carbon anode we can potentially increase the energy density by 50 per cent – which would significantly increase the driving range of an electric car,” she said.