Lithium Air Batteries Get Boost From IBM and DOE

coondoggie writes "The Department of Energy and IBM are serious about developing controversial lithium air batteries capable of powering a car for 500 miles on a single charge – a huge increase over current plug-in batteries that have a range of about 40 to 100 miles, the DOE said. The agency said 24 million hours of supercomputing time out of a total of 1.6 billion available hours at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories will be used by IBM and a team of researchers from those labs and Vanderbilt University to design new materials required for a lithium air battery."

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absolutely

[Anonymous Coward]

Absolutely a game changer. In fact, I got a real charge out of reading about them. The current methods are terminal. I was much more depressed before reading about these things. I think the technology really has potential. Hopefully they will cell, but they might have to amp up the advertising.

Re:Hopefully not vaporware.

[iamhassi]

"I'd guess that living closer to work will have a much larger effect than buying a different car."

with the current job market people would be moving twice a year to keep up. Might as well just get an RV and live your new employer's parking lot until they go bankrupt and you have to change jobs again.