Josh de Wit, a second-year Mechanical Engineering student, has designed a new concept for electric-car batteries.
Josh enjoys a selfie with James May and Richard Hammond from Amazon's The Grand Tour
A student engineer from the University of Sussex has won a national car industry award for designing a new battery that could revolutionise electric vehicles.
Josh de Wit, a second-year mechanical engineering student, has won the Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award for 2016 with a concept that could dramatically reduce charging times for electric vehicles.
This is a massive problem for the motor industry, with many considering the battery to be the biggest obstacle to electric cars going mainstream. Existing batteries are big and heavy, take a long time to charge and run out quickly.
Josh’s design harnesses the remarkable qualities of graphene, a form of pure carbon in sheets that are just one atom thick.
A car battery made with stacked graphene, says Josh, would take far less time to charge, store more energy and be cheaper, stronger and lighter than existing products.
HXG can create this graphene from its graphite deposit
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