Thinking small yields big boost in power

FORT COLLINS – A movie called Revenge of the Electric Car premiered at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival in New York. It’s not a horror flick, but a followup to the 2005 documentary, Who Killed the Electric Car? Six years later, the same director is now suggesting that the demise of electric vehicles was greatly exaggerated.

From a small laboratory on the second floor of the Chemistry Building at Colorado State University, Amy Prieto and her team of scientists are trying to lead the electric-car revival. Using nanowire technology, Prieto has developed a lithium-ion battery that can run…