The Japanese government wants the nation's researchers to come up with a next-generation lithium-ion battery for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids that will deliver triple the power of the current crop of lithium-ion batteries, according to news reports from Japan. To help move things along on the advanced battery front, the government's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization has called for a 22-member research consortium to be funded by about 21-billion yen ($215 million) in government grants over a seven-year period. Major automakers, power companies and universities would be members of the research consortium. The consortium's ultimate goal is a new type of battery, or an incredibly advanced li-ion chemistry, that would enable a conventional passenger car to travel more than 3000 miles on a single charge. The
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Look Out, OPEC: Japan Beginning Work On 300-Mile Battery for Electric Cars
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