I have yet to see anything that shows that lithium ion, more specifically, lifepo4 or Limn, has a calendar life. What I have seen, is that for all practical purposes they can sit, unused, in their...

Most of the cost of batteries isn't the materials anyway. It's the manufacturing facilities that are expensive. I'd be willing to bet that if the market were much larger, and packs were being made...

The boeing battery needs one more cell. The electrical system is basically trickle charging at the batteries max charge cutoff voltage. This is a big no no with lithium batteries; especially liCo. ...

Lithium titinate batteries have about 1/2 the energy density of the current volt battery. Basically you'd halve the range. The upside is they last an incredibly long time, and can output and absorb...

Short of a miracle, probably chapter 11. That new battery announcement was just paper. They're nowhere near actually making a new battery chemistry as far as I'm aware of.

There is some evidence from research this can actually be done with lithium ion batteries also. It's a different pulse rate and such, but you can significantly increase their charge rate and limit...

But not really new. It's a solid oxide fuel cell and they've been around a while and can work with most any hydrocarbon. The news is that they're figuring out how to make them cheaper and smaller.

Thanks for clearing that up. I knew I had to have been doing a conversion or something wrong. Still significant though if it ever reaches production.

If I'm reading the article correctly and using the proper conversions it looks like they're claiming to have increased the energy density 2000 times. Somehow I doubt this; because that would put...

All well and good, but just think of just how expensive that would be to implement. No thanks.

There are already enough nukes to destroy civilization 10x over. So It doesn't concern me all that much.

Focused fusion has been making steady progress for the last few years along with a few others. Hopefully one of these alternative approaches pan out. The Tokamac is a wash as far as that type of...

Lan connected anything is pretty obvious and shouldn't receive a patent. Patent the software used or a particular specialized hardware design to do it. Sure. There are many different ways to...

Also nearly impossible to put your hands on unless you've got connections. They're also very expensive and have less than 1/3 the cycle life of A123's cells. They do have a bit higher energy...

I wonder if they will act as a distributor. It's nearly impossible to get A123 cells through official channels and a whole bunch of home built electric car and electric drag car people would love...

I'm not sure it is a hoax. I don't mean to say I think it's not a hoax. It is possible only time will tell. There are a few companies, mainly those developing large format solid state lithium...

The White Zombie should be in the high 9's shortly after the season starts up this year. The only reason he didn't make it last year was he didn't have enough time with the new Dow/Kokam battery...

Those LiPO batteries are great for RC, but have terrible cycle life compared to other chemistries and are prone to thermal runaway. Figure even if you're really careful with them you may get 500...

Nice to see them making progress. Most of these advances never seem to go anywhere.

"Minor fender-benders could become rather spectacular in such a vehicle. How many watt-seconds of energy are going to be released when that quarter-panel gets shorted out by a runaway shopping cart?...