Imagine if your car weren't powered by a conventional battery under the hood but by energy stored in its walls or even its roof? This is a future that Dr. Bhagya Dharmasiri and her colleagues at the Deakin Institute for Frontier ...
At the same time, structural batteries should make supporting components energy storage and thus avoid additional battery mass. A new carbon fiber compound on a zinc-based basis now combines load absorption and energy storage with shielding against electromagnetic interference. The laboratory demonstrator remains clearly behind separate reference systems in terms of energy and structural performance, but shows a way to components with several te…