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Cambridge Crude, Liquid Electricity

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The future automobile will run on electricity not gasoline! This could quickly happen if you could pull up with your EV to a "gas" pump to recharge your car with a liquid electric fuel.
Cambridge Crude, the nickname of a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) liquid battery recharging system will let you do just that. This new liquid charge goes in as the old one goes out for re-charging by the fueling station; to be used over and over again.

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Based on the description, this appears to be some type of Li-ion fuel cell (or 'flow battery') where the electrolyte contains the lithium. This appears to be a somewhat novel concept with little or no directly comparable technology, so it's kinda hard to judge it.

But I think a couple of things are sure:
a) it will probably require quite a bit of engineering to make it ready for primetime
b) if they want a prototype car, they can now just buy something off the lot (like the Nissan Leaf) and replace the batteries

»cleantechnica.com/2011/06/07/li-···in-half/
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