In the next few years, approximately 8 years from now according to Winfried Wilcke, IBM's senior manager, cars will be capable to run using an oxygen generated battery that produces power by breathing in oxygen.

Dubbed the "Battery 500 project", it is said that it will power up a car to go 500 miles without the need to recharge, after all, it already does that by merely exhaling. Yup. It breathes.

It works when oxygen flows in and when reacted with lithium ions, electricity is expelled. When the battery is saturated with oxygen, it ends its charge and needs recharging through a power source wherein by this time, oxygen is expelled once again, turning the lithium peroxide back to ions.

via [ techsmate.com ]

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