{"id":346822,"date":"2026-02-21T15:41:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/chinese-scientists-build-new-electric-car-batteries-from-plastic\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T15:41:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T15:41:45","slug":"chinese-scientists-build-new-electric-car-batteries-from-plastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/chinese-scientists-build-new-electric-car-batteries-from-plastic\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese scientists build new electric car batteries from plastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/chinese-scientists-build-new-electric-car-batteries-from-plastic.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The batteries that we use to power electric vehicles rely on heavy metals like cobalt and nickel. Unfortunately, these metals are hard to find, are expensive, and often come from places with poor working conditions. But a new study published on February 18, 2026, shows that we might be able to trade those heavy metals for something much lighter and&hellip; <a href=https:\/\/www.arenaev.com\/chinese_scientists_build_better_electric_car_batteries_from_plastic-news-5630.php target='blank'>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/02\/chinese-scientists-build-new-electric-car-batteries-from-plastic.jpg\" alt=\"ArenaEV\"><br \/>The batteries that we use to power electric vehicles rely on heavy metals like cobalt and nickel. Unfortunately, these metals are hard to find, are expensive, and often come from places with poor working conditions. But a new study published on February 18, 2026, shows that we might be able to trade those heavy metals for something much lighter and&hellip; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/chinese-scientists-build-new-electric-car-batteries-from-plastic\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":346823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-346822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arenaev"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}