so our plan is to put the thermal energy storage right on top of this it looks anything but futuristic but inside the chassis of this classic mini rover engineers are tinkering with ways to make electric car batteries go the extra mile in the uk alone one in eight cars bought so far this year were pure electric or hybrid vehicles all big car makers are racing to improve performance but up to half the power of an electric cars battery is used to run the vehicle's heating and air conditioning a big concern for many drivers thinking about
switching to electric but this team think they have a solution using excess heat generated by the battery to warm the car or power a cooling system the advantage of it is it can simply use the heat pre-stored inside the material and when we need to use the heat we just release the energy from the material and use that energy to heat up the cars so it's as simple as that let's hope this low carbon heating and cooling system will revolutionize electric cars allowing them to drive further at a lower cost and also boosting their popularity
the world's first electric forecourt offers a glimpse of what's to come it takes just a matter of minutes to supercharge a vehicle just enough time to wander around the all electric service station even a little workout with the energy generated from this bike fed straight back into the charging stations we've often been tarnished with the anxiety word in this industry in terms of range anxiety and charge anxiety they're very negative phrases and we want to dispel those and move those away and i think range anxiety is a diminishing phraseology because the vehicles are growing so
much further now you know two or three or 400 miles even in certain cases is not necessarily um that far away from being reality some developers are going one step further with technology that can charge vehicles wirelessly at home or on the move along special roads that allow charging whilst driving we're fast approaching a tipping point where the mass adoption of electric cars seems unavoidable battery costs are falling cars are getting cheaper and governments around the world are setting ambitious targets to cut carbon emissions but there are still technological bumps in the road from infrastructure
to performance that engineers are now racing to overcome eve barker al jazeera london
