Nissan is working with NASA on the creation of a new type of battery for electric vehicles (EV).
Quoted from the Associated Press on Saturday, the Japanese automaker said the battery promised to charge faster and be lighter but safer
The all-solid-state battery will replace the lithium-ion battery now used for the 2028 product launch and the pilot plant launch in 2024, according to a Nissan statement.
The all-solid-state battery is stable enough for use in a pacemaker. Once that’s done, it should be about half the size of the current battery and be fully charged in 15 minutes instead of a few hours.
The collaboration with the US space program, as well as the University of California San Diego, involves testing a variety of materials, Company Vice President Kazuhiro Doi told reporters.
“Both NASA and Nissan need the same type of battery,” he said.
Nissan and NASA use so-called “original materials informatics platforms,” computerized databases, to test different combinations to see what works best among hundreds of thousands of materials, Doi said.
