New Li-ion Battery Design Boosts Energy Capacity and Charge Rate 10-Fold

Umm...awesome!?

Battery tech is one of the greatest hindrances on literally EVERYTHING. Cell phones, cars, grid scale storage capacity. A battery 10x better and faster could literally re-write the world as we know it. This is very exciting.

I won't believe it yet, but maybe wind power does have a chance. Even if it's tiny.

And...voila! A smartphone that will last all week long on a single 30 min charge.

wow electric cars finally realized

Hopefully, it won't take up to 3-5 years. If this technology is viable, then it should be researched through a shared system. Although the patent would be the Uni's, but companies could participate in the advancement, thus enabling them to use the technology earlier. And if this can be used on larger batteries as well, then electric cars can finally appear everywhere.

So it takes the same amount to charge, but stores more energy per charge? MATH: A battery stores 10 units of energy, can recharge at a rate of 1 unit per minute. Recharge time = 10 minutes. Redesigned battery now stores 100 units of energy, can recharge at a rate of 10 units per minute. Recharge time = 10 minutes ;)

But other than that this is amazing. Imagine a Chevy Volt with this puppy under the hood?! Or the new Rolls Royce electric Phantom :D. This might allow electric vehicles to find that happy medium between performance and range as well as enable grid storage options. Hats off to the people who did this!

If this is legit, it deserves to be the #1 talked about news story in the tech world for weeks to come.

The ability to boost lithium-ion battery capacity and charge rates 10 fold for roughly the same price will change human society forever...

How many AA batteries does it take to drive my car 1000 miles round trip without having to stop for a recharge?? Isn't technology grand!!! Sometimes they hit the mark right off the bat, and sometimes it taks a bit of tinkering... all good stuff, nonethless! :-)

I work in the battery field, and a claim such as this appears every few months and never pans out. I have seen 250 Wh/kg li-ion batteries explode and it's not pretty. When they explode they shoot jets of plasma out capable of burning straight through inches of titanium. 10x this type of energy equates to about 1/5 of the energy in gasoline. Consider for a moment that your gas tank contains fuel (a homogenous mixture of gasoline). A battery as your fuel source of that size would have tens of thousands of cathode and anode pairs, each pair with the capability of failure. You're replacing a gas tank with a few failure modes with a battery that has maybe a hundred thousand. Ask anyone who works with batteries if they want to drive a chevy volt, let alone a car with batteries 10 times as energy dense, and they'll adamantly tell you H**l no.

EV's with current battery tech go 70 miles on a charge and - maybe - 700 miles with this battery.

Electric airplanes can fly 2 hours now and - maybe - 20 hours in the future.

Yes it will change everything if it makes it from the lab to commercial production.

sweet..ill be able to waste my time much faster and much longer now

Sounds a little like eestor... I won't believe it till I see it.

well i will belive it when i see it to still it mke s ya hope... im sure this stuff will be tested no car co will want to be responsible for a family of four going up in plasma

While I like to be positive about these things, realistically if nobody puts up money we will never see this. And scientists like to continually improve these things just a little for eternity. They could market what they have and then market the improved one later. They never do though. I've read dozens of stories like this over the past decade and so far no battery revolution has occurred. Don't get me wrong, I want it to happen but It should have already.

I'm surprised no one mentioned this, Nissan came out with a similar idea for their car batteries not too long ago..

www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-10/nissan-claims-its-new-charging-system-can-fill-electric-cars-ten-minutes

The tech is different but desired effect seems to be similar. Hopefully we see this type of technology hitting the shelves (or road) before some lobbying company kills it!

awesome!!!!!!!!!

still waiting on the illusive nano-batteries, think I read somewhere they could be as much as 100x the capacity. Time will tell (no doubt will be 1000x the price but )

I work in a lab where a lot of work is being done with Li-ion battery materials (both anode and cathode), and I can say that while this finding is interesting and useful in the future, it won't increase the capacity of current batteries very much. The reason is that the bottleneck of current batteries is the CATHODE not the anode. The current graphite anode can already store much more charge than the cathode. So unless the cathode is developed further, the new anode doesn't help.

Reminds me of the ECAT and how epic this will change societies power requirements. How cool is this!

www.ecat.com

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I recall 4-5 years ago there was a similar report about making nano holes in the carbon plates in a battery and that the technology was going to get deployed within 4 years, and it seems to have never happened...

This technology could prove very useful in the expanding research for an "all electric automobile," that is capable of obtaining a more efficent charge.

this is great news, another step towards better more efficient electric cars and other forms of electrical devices, im so tired of people poopooing things like electrical cars because of battery power or life or recharge rate, like the internal combustion engine was all that great when it first came out, loud, smelly, inefficient, slow and completely unreliable is what they were when they first came out. Yet these fools seem to neglect these simple facts when they put down such things because of early battery technology. Going to love the next breakthrough on batteries when it happens..and nano batteries, this is just a step closer to them now..great stuff

PLEASE NOTE

Ten fold is not the same as Ten times. Ten fold means two to the tenth, or 1024 times better.

This is a fantastic change, but is certainly not a tenfold increase.

PLEASE NOTE

I am occasionally an idiot and am very tired.
Ignore the above obnoxious comment.

I am sorry.

A game changer indeed.

This technology applied to a Nissan Leaf battery pack would give a 1000 mile range with a charging time using the rapid charger of just 30 minutes!

VOILA!

Now you can drive from Denver, Co to Austin, TX on one charge and recharge overnight and return the next day!

Not just a game changer but the end of the oil industry if it becomes reality.

This has the capability to make all trucks, busses, MH's, etc changed from diesel to electric as long rang trucks could easily get the job done with high HP high torque electric motors.

After all--electric motors are really what drives our rail lines--diesel just provides the power to the electrics which do the real work.

Amazing technological breakthrough if it can be manufactured cheaply enough.

Apple?
Toyota?
Are you reading this???

jerrydd

Another hyped battery. So many problems with it like how are you put that kind of amps to charge in 10 minutes through graphite?

Nor does an EV need such a battery. I use to own a Solectria Sunrise which a sister one did 377 miles and Boston to NYC on I-95 back in 1990. Look it up.

What we need are decent lightweight chassis/bodies to put them in.

And it's not hard to get a 100 mile range EV using old fashion lead batteries!!

The EV I'm building, an all composite body/chassis stronger than steel would with a Volts battery pack would have a 250 mile range. The one I'm driving gets 600mpge.