Phinergy, an Israeli startup, has demonstrated an aluminium-air battery that is capable of powering an electric vehicle for up to 1,000 miles (1,609km). Unlike other metal-air batteries that we've ...

Last year, Phinergy and Alcoa announced the development of an aluminum-air battery that could give an electric car a potential range of 1,000 miles, with stops along the way for a water top-up.

Alcoa and clean technology company Phinergy today debuted a zero-emissions electric demo car powered by revolutionary aluminum-air battery at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal. Alcoa and ...

Each plate can power a car for about 20 miles, according to Phinergy. Used to bolster a lithium-ion battery, a car with the aluminum-air battery can travel about 1,000 miles.

The test car, which appeared to be using the body of a Citroen C1, used lithium-ion and aluminum-air batteries for the run. But the question of whether or not it makes sense to take this little EV ...

The car's lithium-ion battery provides less than 100 miles of range, but the Phinergy aluminum-air cells acts as a range extender to provide up to an additional 1,000 miles.

Start-up company Phinergy believes their aluminum-air batteries, which power cars with water, air and metal, could be installed in production vehicles by 2017.

Jackson claims that if you replaced a Tesla Model S lithium-ion battery with one of his aluminum-air batteries of the same size, range would increase from 370 miles to 1,500 miles.

Stephen Edelstein February 9, 2014 Comment Now! Battery developer Phinergy is moving toward its goal of marketing an aluminum-air battery that could offer electric-car drivers 1,000 miles of range.

Developed by Phinergy, an Israeli start-up, and aluminum giant Alcoa, the aluminum-air battery, its inventors say, could eliminate range anxiety from electric vehicles, adding 1,600 km.