First, a disclaimer. News about battery breakthroughs for electric cars pours into the teletype machines located in the subbasement ofworld headquarters on a daily basis . We parse that flood of information and try to select stories that seem to have relevance to the real world, but that doesn’t mean we don’t sometimes get taken in by some announcement that turns out to be mostly a flimflam.
“Our extensive research here in the UK and US has unlocked a novel battery technology that is ready and scalable right now,” Nyobolt co-founder and CEO Sai Shivareddy said in a statement Friday. “We are enabling the electrification of new products and services currently considered inviable or impossible.”
Nyobolt is currently in talks to sell its batteries to eight electric car manufacturers. At 35 kWh, the battery is much smaller than the 85 kWh in a more typical American electric vehicle, yet the technology may be used in larger battery packs in the future.