---
title: "New Battery Tech Could Double Electric Car Driving Range"
description: "A team of Korean researchers claim their new carbon-silicon complex car battery could more than double the driving range of electric vehicles."
date: "2020-02-21"
modified: "2020-02-21"
authors:
  - name: "Victor Tangermann"
    job_title: "Senior Editor"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/victor"
url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-battery-tech-double-electric-car-driving-range"
categories:
  - "Advanced Transport"
tags:
  - "batteries"
  - "battery"
  - "electric cars"
  - "the digest"
---

# New Battery Tech Could Double Electric Car Driving Range

![A team of Korean researchers claim their new carbon-silicon complex car battery could more than double the driving range of electric vehicles.](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/new-battery-tech-double-electric-car-driving-range.jpg>)
*\<em\>Image: GM\</em\>*

## Altered Carbon

A team of researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have [announced](<https://phys.org/news/2020-02-high-capacity-ev-battery-materials-range.html>) a new carbon-silicon material that they say could more than double the driving range of electric vehicles — and enable fast charging to more than 80 percent capacity in just five minutes.

Current-day EVs generally use graphite anode batteries, which tend to provide shorter range compared to their gas-guzzling brethren, according to the researchers. Silicon anodes, on the other hand, have ten times the capacity — but are much worse at holding their capacity over time.

## Frying Batteries

The team, led by Hun-Gi Jung, came up with a way to keep these silicon anodes stable by using "a simple thermal process used for frying food," according to [a statement](<https://phys.org/news/2020-02-high-capacity-ev-battery-materials-range.html>), which involves the use of water, oil, and starch.

The results were impressive: they say the new battery has four times the capacity of its graphite anode counterparts and remained stable over 500 cycles. Thanks to carbon present in their silicon anode, the silicon didn't expand either, which is a common problem with the tech.

"We were able to develop carbon-silicon composite materials using common, everyday materials and simple mixing and thermal processes with no reactors," Jung said in the statement, noting that their new composites perform so well, they're "highly likely to be commercialized and mass-produced."

**READ MORE:** [Researchers develop high-capacity EV battery materials that double driving range](<https://phys.org/news/2020-02-high-capacity-ev-battery-materials-range.html>) \[National Research Council of Science & Technology\]

**More on batteries:** *[This “Quantum Battery” Never Loses Its Charge](<https://futurism.com/the-byte/quantum-battery-never-loses-charge>)*

## Author
I've been at Futurism since 2017, where my role has evolved to encompass design, writing, and increasingly editing. I've always been fascinated by space exploration and advanced transportation, which I've leaned into by interviewing luminaries in those fields while closely following the dimensions of policy and regulation that allow next-generation projects to succeed -- or, sometimes, to fail. I'm also keenly interested in the effects of generative AI on society, policies, and democratic institutions, as well as clean energy, physics and biology, and the vagaries of tech leadership. My work for Futurism has been cited by publications including Ars Technica, Gizmodo, PC Magazine, Jalopnik, Fox News, and the New York Post. I spent my childhood living in locations including Manila, the Philippines, and Geneva, Switzerland, attended McGill University, and now live in Toronto, Canada. Before Futurism I worked at AskMen and a small photography studio. In my free time, I'm an avid gardener, foodie, and craft beer lover, as well as a maker of artisanal hot pepper sauces. I have a magnificent dog named Freida.

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