Comments on: 100-Fold Lithium-ion Battery Breakthrough

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Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:38:15 +0000

[...] continues, research into more efficient, longer lasting and cheaper batteries for cars coincides. Lithium-ion is the current leader in car battery technology, but companies are researching other combination’s. [...]

By: Gmanzz

Gmanzz — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 15:16:08 +0000

For the people complaining about fast charging at home. Do you gas up your car at home? Nope. Leave the fast chargers at the stations. I dont mind slow charging at home while Im sleeping OFF PEAK hours.

These batteries have huge potential for fleet vehicles as well with high loads to break being able to recapture large amounts of energy quickly is key to diesel-hybrid work trucks.

And any great breakthroughs in batteries can be a good thing even for early adopters as they will need to eventually replace batteries anyway. Taking a early EV from 100 to 250 mile range when you have to replace batteries anyway is a great thing.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:36:05 +0000

I am glad to be alive to witness this transitional stage of the energy evolution, i.e., from the combustion of fossil fuels to the usage of the more universe friendly electrons/atom. What’s next? Fussion?

By: jeffhre

jeffhre — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:02:59 +0000

The company is owned by Elon Musk!

By: jeffhre

jeffhre — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 02:01:57 +0000

And if all harvesting, maintenance, transporting was on foot, *bookkeeping and records done during the daytime on an abacus etc.

*That last one was rhetorical in nature.

By: Puppyjump

Puppyjump — Tue, 19 May 2009 05:17:51 +0000

Voltny wrote: Great news, good bye Saudis, Middle east, Hugo Chavez and OPEC. Welcome the new Volt generation.

Nope. Stanford had a similar battery back in 2007. Google “Stanford Lithium battery” After they published, the battery was never in the news again. It has been revealed that Saudi Arabia is funding the project.

Now they will just buy the MIT battery design.

By: Randy

Randy — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:41:46 +0000

Watch, Exxon will buy this technology. They will give MIT hundreds of millions of dollars for it, in a secret transaction. Then, like most battery technology, it will quietly disappear. It has happened before.

By: rashomon

rashomon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:07:06 +0000

This is big news, but not for PHEVs. As many have pointed out, by the time you have enough energy for a PHEV, power isn’t an issue. Where it is really important are for mild hybrids and for KER systems, and anywhere else where power capacity, particularly on brake energy rengeration, is the limiting factor. The ideal application for this technology is something like the current Honda Insight, where the improved battery technology will allow a cheaper, smaller pack with similar efficiency, or more efficiency with the same pack capacity.

By: LeKaido

LeKaido — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:58:59 +0000

Gooooooooooood! This just goes to show that where there is much demand, research can work out wonders.. now the production! production!

By: Luther Browning

Luther Browning — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:13:34 +0000

How do you recharge such batteries or an EEStor quickly? Each charging station has storage in the form of the same type of batt. or cap. on site. That way the grid can keep the station storage banks topped off and as vehicles come in to recharge the storage bank has the capacity to fill each vehicle rapidly with out overloading the grid. Much the way gas stations work now. Simple.