Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries for Electric Vehicles

Rapid global industrial development, rising populations and the corresponding increase in the number of vehicles have caused a sudden jump in the consumption of fossil fuel energy. Given this background, the critical issues facing vehicle manufactures can be summarized into the following three: preventing air pollution, reducing CO2 emissions and developing vehicles that can run on a variety of alternative energy sources to petroleum. The most effective way of addressing these issues is considered to be the development of vehicles that can run on electricity, such as hybrid vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles, electric vehicles and fuel-cell hybrid vehicles.