{news} Electric Vehicles and American Independence @ Yale :: Apr25/Noon

[David Bedell]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Talk on Battery Research coming to Yale School of Forestry and Environmental
Studies

Monday, April 25, 2005 @ Noon
Bowers Auditorium, Sage Hall
Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies
New Haven, Connecticut

Donald Sadoway, a battery expert and John F. Elliott Professor of Materials 
Chemistry at MIT, will give a talk, "Towards Viable Electric Vehicles and 
American Independence" on Monday, April 25, 2005 at the Yale School of 
Forestry and Environmental Studies.

Professor Sadoway and his team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology have 
invented the Slimcell, a lightweight battery comprised of lithium and a 
Plexiglas-like material, which is capable of storing in excess of 300 
watt-hours per kilogram. Ultimately, the team's goal is for the Slimcell to 
power electric vehicles. The team is also conducting research on doubling or 
tripling the capacity of today's batteries.

Since September 11, 2001 the need to break US reliance on petroleum has been 
put into sharp focus. According to Professor Sadoway, the only major 
technological obstacle remaining is a battery capable of enabling vehicle 
performance comparable to that delivered by an internal combustion engine. 
Recent studies in his laboratory have led to the discovery of a suite of 
advanced materials that in combination offer the prospect of developing 
solid-state, thin-film batteries capable of propelling an automobile 300 
miles on a single charge.

Towards Viable Electric Vehicles and American Independence is sponsored by 
the Yale Center for Industrial Ecology, the Connecticut Technology Council, 
and the Environmental Library Fund. Lunch will be provided courtesy of the 
Connecticut Technology Council.

For more information about the lecture, please contact Gretchen Rings, 
program coordinator, at 203.432.6953 or gretchen.rings@ yale.edu

Related links of interest
http://web.mit.edu/dsadoway/www
http://www.yale.edu/cie
http://www.ct.org
http://www.bmbb.biz

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