MIT Powers Up New Battery for Hybrid Cars

Researchers at MIT have developed a new type of lithium battery that could become a cheaper alternative to the batteries that now power hybrid electric cars.

But lithium nickel manganese oxide, described in a paper published in Science on Feb. 17, could revolutionize the hybrid car industry — a sector that has “enormous growth potential,” said Gerbrand Ceder, MIT professor of materials science and engineering, who led the project.