NASA may have just discovered the perfect elements for the best battery. One of the U.S. Space Agency's divisions is working on developing lighter, safer, and more effective batteries.
The current industry standard for electric vehicle batteries, lithium-ion batteries, includes liquids that make them susceptible to overheating, fire, and gradual charge depletion. NASA is developing experimental solid-state battery packs that do not have these issues as part of its SABERS (Solid-state Architecture Batteries for Enhanced Rechargeability and Safety) project.
NASA's Convergent Aeronautics Solutions initiative, which aims to research specific technologies to address some of aviation's most pressing problems, including battery-powered flight, provides funding for SABERS.
Around 2% of all greenhouse gas emissions worldwide are carbon emissions from aviation. Batteries are suggested as a potential reducing alternative to jet fuel, contributing much to our emission rate.
Solid-state batteries from SABERS have been developed during the past year to create a discharge rate ten times higher than any other example on the market and then again by a factor of 5.
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