07-11-2006, 04:59 AM
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Real Name: Nash
Location: San Diego
Hybrids: 05 FEH, 07 TCH
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Re: New Battery technology
Sounds very much like Toshiba's Lithium Ion Charges in One Minute
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.
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.
The battery's advantages in size, weight and safety highly suit it for a role as an alternative power source for hybrid electric vehicles
Toshiba's press release - March 2005
EETimes Lithium ion battery recharges in one minute
Toshiba plans to begin mass producing the battery in its fiscal 2006 ending March 2007.
Last edited by nash; 07-11-2006 at 06:52 AM.
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