A new structural battery by Chalmers University could drastically reduce the weight of electronic devices and vehicles by combining load-bearing and energy storage capabilities, offering a leap in efficiency and design potential.
If vehicles or electronics were constructed using a material that functions as both a battery and a load-bearing structure, the weight and energy consumption would be radically reduced. Now, researchers at the Chalmers University of Technology have achieved a breakthrough in massless energy storage with their new structural battery which could halve the weight of a laptop, make the mobile phone as thin as a credit card, and increase the driving range of an electric car by up to 70 percent on a single charge.
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