IBM announced that industry leaders Asahi Kasei and Central Glass will join its Battery 500 project. They will collaborate on extensive research in hopes of the potential to switch from gasoline to electricity as the primary power source for vehicles. The Battery 500 technology works as an open system using common air as a reagent which upon recharge releases oxygen back into the environment. While driving, oxygen reacts with lithium ions, forming lithium peroxide on a carbon matrix. Upon...
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