Batteries more autonomous, flexible, smaller: a grail that seeks to achieve the Mountain View company, which is working on several projects in parallel in his lab Google X.
This is the Wall Street Journal reveals: For more than two years, Google has set up a group in his lab Google X to work on new battery technologies for its devices. At its head, Dr. Ramesh Bhardwaj, expert in the field of rechargeable batteries, which has worked for Lockheed Martin and Apple.
Its working group within the lab would not be huge, with only four researchers. But its important mission when Google is increasing its initiatives in the hardware: the giant would have under the elbow at least twenty projects he hopes to make progress in this area. The Glass, for example, which were sealed by an average battery life, but also its autonomous cars, his robots ...
Dr. Ramesh Bhardwaj would advance on two fronts simultaneously: first, try to improve lithium-ion batteries, which currently equip our mobile devices. But he also plancherait on batteries of a new genre, solid electrolyte. No details of the technology he explores were provided, but it might remind one of Sakti3 in which Dyson has recently invested. Solid batteries have many advantages: it promise a higher density, finer and can even be flexible ... which would offer new opportunities for mobile and wearable. Bhardwaj goes even further still according to the WSJ, it was estimated that during a presentation that they could be implanted in the human body because much safer than current batteries
