Everything you need to know about lithium-ion batteries – but which car makers forgot to tell you
It’s become part of everyday life. “Most of us plug in our laptops or phones to recharge at night without really thinking about it,” says Serena Corr, Chair in Functional Materials and Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering at the University of Sheffield, “but what’s happening during charge and discharge is a highly complex process and still not completely understood.”
We’re talking about lithium-ion (abbreviated to Li-ion) batteries and when someone with a job title like Corr’s tells you something is “highly complex”, you’d better believe it. These are the batteries that power just about everything these days; as well your mobile phone, computer and power tools, they also drive pretty much all battery-electric cars.
Read the full article at The Telegraph.
Erik Schaltz
Erik Schaltz received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Department of Energy Technology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, in 2005 and 2010, respectively.
From 2009 to 2012, he has been an Assistant Professor in the same department where he is currently an Associate Professor and the head of the research programme in E-Mobility and Industrial Drives.
His research interests include a wide range of topics within the field of electro-mobility, e.g. power electronics, electric machines, batteries, ultracapacitors, fuel cells, battery management systems, electric and hybrid electric vehicle modelling, thermoelectric generators, reliability, and inductive power transfer systems. He has participated in several national and international research projects.
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