According to researchers, the advance of massless energy storage combined with a structural battery could cut the weight of a laptop by 50 percent, make a mobile as this as a credit card, or increase the driving range of an EV by up to 70 percent on a single charge.

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Structural batteries are materials that, in addition to storing energy, can carry loads. Stiff, strong carbon fibers could store electrical energy chemically and, in this way, the battery material can become part of the actual construction material of a product.