Could Your Car's Body Be Its Battery Too? Volvo Is Trying

greencarreports.com — The biggest challenge for battery electric vehicles is clearly the cost and the weight of today's lithium-ion battery packs. Now Volvo is experimenting with a new composite material that can store and release energy more quickly than a convention lithium-ion cell and, it says, might one day replace steel for making auto body panels. Sep 25, 2010 View in Crawl 4