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Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new electrolytes that enable lithium batteries to run at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius with excellent performance -- in comparison, today's lithium-ion batteries stop working at -20 degrees Celsius. The new electrolytes also enable electrochemical capacitors to run as cold as -80 degrees Celsius -- their current limit is -40 degrees Celsius.
Press release: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2235
Photo credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
20170608-Cold_Battery-8857-sRGB-hires
Engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed new electrolytes that enable lithium batteries to run at temperatures as low as -60 degrees Celsius with excellent performance -- in comparison, today's lithium-ion batteries stop working at -20 degrees Celsius. The new electrolytes also enable electrochemical capacitors to run as cold as -80 degrees Celsius -- their current limit is -40 degrees Celsius.
Press release: jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/news/news_releases/release.sfe?id=2235
Photo credit: David Baillot/UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering