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    Learn how batteries work, from basic cell chemistry to electric vehicle technology. Discover how chemical energy is stored and converted into electricity.

    How Batteries Work: Energy Storage in Cells and Electric Vehicles

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    We don’t actually store electricity at all. Instead, we perform a sort of alchemical trick where we force that kinetic energy to transform into a quiet, resting state called chemical potential energy.

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    How does a battery work and if you can explain how a battery works then how does a large cell or a large battery like an electric vehicle? How is electricity able to be stored and then used later it doesn’t make any sense to me. 

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