Innovation

The Electric Car Battery of the Future Could Be Made From Trees

POWER PLANT

Most green vehicles run on lithium-ion batteries, which are made from toxic materials. Is there an alternative?

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Electric cars are supposed to help the world go green and stop hurting the planet. Engineers at Brown University and the University of Maryland are taking that goal to another other level, with a new proposal for batteries made from trees, according to new findings published in Nature.

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