Tuesday, February 14, 2012

BBC News - BAE provides details of 'structural battery' technology

BBC News - BAE provides details of 'structural battery' technology

Torches, drones and an electric Le Mans racing car are all test-beds for a new kind of "structural battery", BAE Systems has said. The batteries use carbon fibre and can form part of the body of a device.

"The beauty of what we've got is that, when it's fully developed, a company will be able to go out and buy what is a standard carbon-composite material, lay out the shape, put it through the curing process and have a structural battery," he said. "You take the nickel base chemistries and there are ways you can integrate that into the carbon fibre," Mr Penney explained.

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