Highlights:
• The power suit material for electric cars is as strong as steel and lighter than aluminium.
• The body shells of the vehicles are made from the latest nano materials.
• It will boost the vehicle’s power capacity
The suit works as an energy-storing super capacitor battery hybrid device due to its unique design at the nanoscale level.
Where the research has done
The body shells of electric vehicles are used for storing energy and supplementing the power stored in the batteries.This ‘suit’ is made of layered carbon composite material that works as an energy-storing super capacitor battery hybrid device due to its unique design at the nanoscale level. This research is done in the University of Central Florida, team headed by Dr Jayan Thomas, professor of nanotechnology and head of materials science and photonic department. The other Indian members who participated in the research were Kennedy Space Centre researcher Luke Roberson and Kaushik Sampath Kumar and Deepak Pandey.
Material of the body shell
The material for manufacturing the body shells of the vehicles are made from the latest nano materials including carbon fibre and graphene along with water which will give 25 per cent more energy than what is provided by the battery. It would also boost an electric car’s power, giving it the extra push it needs to go from zero to 96.5kmph in just three seconds.
The power suit material for electric cars is as strong as steel and lighter than aluminium, which will reduce the overall weight of the vehicle considerably. It will also boost the vehicle’s power capacity. The US
National Science Foundation funded the research work.
