A lithium ion battery that charges in 20 seconds

[Michael Brennan]

Gold watch for the team that figured this one out, by an apparently simple change in the manufacturing process that will allow electrons to pass quickly into the lithium instead of bumping into each other the battery is charged in 20 seconds instead of 6 minutes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7938001.stm



Michael Brennan

 

[Mark B.]

Gold watch for the team that figured this one out, by an apparently simple change in the manufacturing process that will allow electrons to pass quickly into the lithium instead of bumping into each other the battery is charged in 20 seconds instead of 6 minutes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7938001.stm



Michael Brennan

And the lithium iron phosphate batteries don't melt down, so the airlines will probably let us stuff our luggage full of those batteries!

 

[Dominic Jones]

Which would put the Red bricks (assuming the capacity is possible with that chemistry) charging fully in around 7mins. That would be nice!

 

[Matthew Rogers]

This would eliminate the need to have so many bricks if you had some place to charge them.

Pretty exciting. Maybe someone can get them to market quicker though.

Matthew

 

[Mike Harrington]

ya 2-3 years right now.....

if someone was to jump on that now they could corner the market