'Ifbattery' - Instantly Rechargeable Technology for Electric & Hybrid Cars
Purdue University researcher John Cushman has developed an 'instantly rechargeable,' membrane-less flow battery for electric and hybrid vehicles . The innovation could speed up the adoption of these vehicles by eliminating the time needed to stop and re-charge a conventional electric car's battery and dramatically reducing the need for new infrastructure to support re-charging stations. Cushman co-founded Ifbattery LLC to further develop and commercialize the technology, and says 'Ifbattery's components are safe enough to be stored in a family home, are stable enough to meet major production and distribution requirements and are cost effective. '
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00:00:00 Purdue University is an international leader in technology transfer and startup creation one of those startups is if battery which is developing an instantly rechargeable battery that is cost-effective safer and environmentally friendly if employed in the automobile industry for electric and hybrid vehicles recharging would be a process similar to
00:00:21 refueling a car that would only take a few minutes that could expedite the adoption of electric and hybrid vehicles by making the process of keeping a car fully charged the startup was co-founded by John H Cushman distinguished professor of Earth atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and professor of applied mathematics Eric Nauman professor of mechanical and biomedical
00:00:41 engineering and Mike mature T's doctoral research assistant in physics only weaknesses of most batteries there's a great mountain in granite the client selenium where it breaks down in the batteries no longer function in our case we don't have a name they got one on one side and on the inside some salt in it and you've got metal on one side is aluminium using
00:01:05 both extremely expensive and muscle charging book Republic oxygen of course an Internet counselor collection he's come into the gas station and a chronicler pledges our mayor is a busy full of the games consulting with the group is Dennis Evans professor emeritus of chemistry if batteries technology eliminates the massive infrastructure investment that complicates the adoption
00:01:31 of electric cars with existing technology it is simply much safer because he doesn't really have an explosive potential it's a much safer but it still has a very high power density from an environmental perspective you can generate these fluids and then take it back to whatever source you have parcel and reconstitute electrical so
00:02:03 not have to hurry and free house gases chemicals are comparatively is the pre-charge your car as time as increases if battery has licensed some of the technology through the purdue research foundation office of technology commercialization if battery also has patent applications of its own we've got a half a dozen chemistry's that do pretty much what we
00:02:52 wanted to we were push enough to get some cattle you know start and we've run a long ways with that but we will need for the plant because what's going to be holding us up is manpower essentially the compounds not expensive the great at which we can put these things into actual production just like a limited based on manpower to find more information about this and other purdue
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