Battery technology to drive electric car market

The skeleton of electric car includes important parts such as metal body with wheels, motor and the batteries. The motor can be simple DC Motor to single phase/three phase induction motor. Induction motors are preferred for ruggedness, reliability and maintenance. There is not much innovation in motors except for improving the efficiency and long life. The motor need to be designed for regenerative braking so that it works as generator as well. The most important thing which can improve the performance of electric car are batteries. Quick charging ability, higher energy density, long storage and wide operating temperature all important. Lithium Ion batteries are the best choice when it comes these parameters. But the risk of Lithium Battery is safety. Battery researchers lately have developed Lithium Ion batteries which does not catch fire with good support of charge and discharge control electronics. There are many electric cars adopting Lithium Ion for EVs. One of successful electric car model S EV from Tesla has used Lithium Ion batteries made by Panasonic. Panasonic has said it has shipped 100 million Lithium Ion Batteries to Tesla for use in its electric car model S EV. With a very comfortable driving range of 500km this car is projected to top 20,000 units sales in 2013. India's popular electric car maker Mahindra Reva has launched a new model e2o with Lithiu...