Processing time on the top supercomputers
Researchers working on lithium-ion batteries to power cars have been given time on supercomputers at Oak Ridge and Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois.
According to the statement from officials at Oak Ridge , the goal is to develop materials for batteries with the potential to power a car for 500 miles on a single charge.
Used in today's emerging plug-in hybrid electric vehicles,lithium-ion batteries currently have a range of approximately 40 to 100 miles.Lithium-ion batteries that are currently found mostly in cell phones and laptops.
The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded about 24 million hours of processing time on the top supercomputers for research projects through the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment program.