NASA says it has created a novel solid state battery that has enough energy and power to be used in electric airplanes and other aeronautical devices.
can hold more energy and perform better in stressful environments than conventional lithium ion batteries.
NASA says a battery is like a bucket. Its capacity is how much the bucket can hold while its power is how fast the bucket can be emptied. To power an electric aircraft, the battery must discharge its energy, or empty its bucket, at an extraordinarily fast rate. Instead of housing each individual battery cell inside its own steel casing the way conventional lithium-ion batteries do, all the cells in SABERS’s battery can be stacked vertically inside one casing. Thanks in part to this novel design, SABERS has demonstrated that its solid-state batteries can power have an energy density of 500 watt-hours per kilogram — double that of a traditional electric car battery.
This year, the main objective for SABERS was to show the properties of its solid-state battery meet its energy and safety targets while demonstrating it can safely operate under realistic conditions and at maximum power. Its research partners at Georgia Tech help pioneer different methodologies that can improve the solid-state batteries and make them more for practical for use in aviation applications.
“We’ve had a lot of productive discussions on how others at NASA could leverage our work and potentially use our battery,” said Viggiano. “It’s been extremely rewarding to think about what could possibly come from it. We’ve seen SABERS grow from an idea we had a lunch one day to, potentially, an energy solution for aeronautics.”
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