VW is testing new battery chemistry capable of providing between three and four times the power from a given capacity. This would mean up to 80kWh from a similar volume occupied by the current Golf Blue-e-motion's 26.5kWh battery pack.
announced a the Geneva motor show, he said that the company has tested lithium-ion batteries with its existing cell supplier (Sanyo) with between 24 and 28kWh and also up to 37kWh, but “an 80kWh unit is under development using our own technology. It would provide between three and four times the battery power in a given package.”
VW refuses to name the battery chemistry, but doesn’t deny it is a lithium-air unit, which are capable of delivering huge amounts of power, but are in the very early stages of development.
As to how far a plug-in hybrid or pure battery car could travel in electric mode with such a battery, depends on what the customer wants.
would you settle for about 200km (124 miles) of electric range???
food for thought?
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