Toshiba's 'NanoBattery' Recharges In Only One Minute

[Old and In the Way]

Pretty cool breakthrough.....

http://www.physorg.com/news3539.html

Toshiba Corporation today announced a breakthrough in lithium-ion batteries that makes long recharge times a thing of the past. The company's new battery can recharge 80% of a battery's energy capacity in only one minute, approximately 60 times faster than the typical lithium-ion batteries in wide use today, and combines this fast recharge time with performance-boosting improvements in energy density.

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The excellent recharging characteristics of new battery are not its only performance advantages. The battery has a long life cycle, losing only 1% of capacity after 1,000 cycles of discharging and recharging, and can operate at very low temperatures. At minus 40 degrees centigrade, the battery can discharge 80% of its capacity, against 100% in an ambient temperature of 25 degree centigrade).

Toshiba will bring the new rechargeable battery to commercial products in 2006. Initial applications will be in the automotive and industrial sectors, where the slim, small-sized battery will deliver large amounts of energy while requiring only a minute to recharge. For example, the battery's advantages in size, weight and safety highly suit it for a role as an alternative power source for hybrid electric vehicles.

[buddysmellgood]

1. That is awesome. When you consider that the average commute

is 30 miles, and a modified Prius can do that with a bank of old tech batteries... I say gas is too cheap. We need $3 a gallon and then people will beg for this kind of stuff.

[Old and In the Way]

2. I think SE Asia will be the 1st place to really accept battery tech

for cars/scooters. 2 cycle scooters are killing the environment and way too noisy. Pleanty of sun and quiet to boot. I'll bet that'll be place where the techniology takes off...

[nine30]

3. Keep in mind that..

..this device does not GENERATE energy, merely stores it.

[Old and In the Way]

4. Actually, it does both.

It generates power until exhausted.

[delete_bush]

5. Great news, a U.S. corporation once again

in the vanguard of technological innovation, providing thousands of high paying jobs for American workers!

whoops, just realized we missed out on this one. Well, I'm sure with the emphasis on science in our country it will just be a matter of time....

[Old and In the Way]

6. We'll be focusing on BS Degrees in Bible Study

as we march determinedly back into the Dark Ages. And I don't mean Bachelor of Science, either...