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Made in India: A new car battery

India innovates: Tired of lifting heavy lead-acid car batteries? Scientists have developed light-weight batteries by replacing lead with plastic.

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Updated : Dec 13, 2017, 01:16 AM IST

India innovates

NEW DELHI: Tired of lifting the heavy lead-acid batteries of your car? Remedy is on the way. Scientists of two leading Indian labs have jointly developed light-weight car batteries by replacing the lead with plastic.

These storage batteries for which a patent has been filed in the United States will be a boon to electric cars of the future, the developers claim. Currently used lead-acid car batteries — that make use of metallic lead or lead alloys — typically weigh about 20 kilograms. The new battery, delivering the same energy, will weigh only about 12 kg.

“Its development is the result of materials scientists at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore joining hands with electrochemists at the Central Electrochemical Research Institute (CECRI) in Karaikudi,” says AK Shukla, who led the research team. Shukla is director of CECRI and also does research at IISc.

The scientists reduced the battery weight by using a special plastic and coating it with lead instead of fabricating the battery entirely using solid lead. The “acrylonitrile butadiene styrene” (ABS) polymer plastic used to make the battery grids is 75 per cent lighter than metallic lead.

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