With 2016 looming and car manufacturers showing off their newly designed electric vehicles Ansai Technology are racing to get their solid-state Site Acceptance Tests ('SAT') completed. Ansai have been in discussions with a large car manufacturer in Japan and expect to be making joint announcements next year with regard to a new electrically powered vehicle that will be powered by Ansai’s batteries.
Hans Busch, Ansai’s CEO said “there are exciting times ahead for us over the coming 12 months; we have been working hard in the labs on new technology and with next year’s announcement on our car batteries imminent the future looks bright”. He also said “We are expecting to significantly increase our production facility in light of the current trend towards electric vehicles”.
Surprisingly enough at the start of the 20th century, over 25% of all cars in the U.S were electric, yet by the 1920s the decline had taken its toll and there were few left. The decline was mainly due to the inadequate range and lack power the electric cars batteries had in comparison to gasoline engines. Moreover, electric cars were decidedly more expensive than their gasoline equivalent. These same accusations are leveled at batteries today, even though battery technology has improved substantially over the last century. Worldwide research and development is being carried out by battery manufacturers and developers like Ansai’s whose main focus is on dramatically improving performance while making the batteries lighter, more compact, and affordable.
Batteries are regularly taken for granted and unappreciated when they do what they’re supposed to do, but sternly criticized when they don’t quite meet expectations. Electric vehicles will doubtless become more prevalent as batteries improve. Hans Busch said “Technological advances in batteries will have a major impact on the transportation industry, that’s a given but they could also notably change global energy markets. Even with the current perceived imperfections of batteries, there is enormous potential with even slight improvements having a global impact that could change the world as we know it”.