Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough – Fluidic Energy

The company aims to build a Metal-Air Ionic Liquid battery that has up to 11 times the energy density of the top lithium-ion technologies for less than one-third the cost.

A government-funded start-up claims it can make ionic liquid energy storage feasible.

The U.S. Department of Energy last week awarded a $5.13-million research grant to Scottsdale, AZ-based Fluidic Energy http://fluidicenergy.com/ toward development of a metal-air battery that relies on ionic liquids, instead of an aqueous solution, as its electrolyte.

By Tyler Hamilton

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