The Toyota Aqua small car never made much sense, as it only knew more about the Toyota Yaris than the fact that there was already only a hybrid version of the Aqua, so its customers could promote their eco-friendly approach in the same way as Prius customers. Nevertheless, in Japan, he spent three of his ten years of marketing topping the absolute sales rankings, so when it was time to retire, he didn’t even have to retire without a successor.
Now, the second-generation Aqua has been introduced, which is longer, heavier and more spacious than the Yaris, but that’s not the most important feature, but that it introduces special battery technology to the market.
In conventional nickel-hydrogen batteries, a separating, insulating layer extends between the anode floating in the electrolyte and the cathode. This package is enclosed on one side by a current collection layer and then this multilayer sandwich structure is placed in the battery cell. In a bipolar nickel-hydrogen battery, on the other hand, the current collector also serves as the wall of the battery cell.
Bypassing the interlayers reduces battery space by about 40 percent, but this is not the only advantage of the technology: the system can pass more current, so its performance is about 50 percent higher than that of a conventional nickel-hydrogen battery with the same number of cells. Together, these two technological advantages mean that a bipolar battery can perform twice as much power as a previous-generation unit in the same size.
(Source: vezess.hu / photo: pixabay.com)