The BATT Program (Batteries for Advanced Transportation Technologies) is a $6 million DOE program that aims to develop the next-generation batteries for use in electric, hybrid-electric, and plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles. Berkeley Lab's Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD) assists the U.S. Department of Energy in managing research conducted under this program, which takes place not only at Berkeley Lab, but other national labs, universities, and private companies. The next generation of batteries in your car is coming from laboratories — and from computer models. Advanced battery development is no longer just a question of trial and error engineering; scientists increasingly use computer models to design the best possible battery. http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archiv...atteries-I.html
There was a "mini column" (one of those one paragraph and graph things) in Wired magazine around the end of last year that plotted battery development against Moore's law. It was interesting.... it showed that while computing power was continuing to advance at the amazing rate predicted by Moore's Law, electrical storage density in batteries has not changed in twenty years. And what's more, the durability of batteries has decreased slightly. If someone finds a link to the graph, pleas post it.
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