9 second charge rate lithium ion battery claimed by MIT

Sounds pretty promising, could be interesting to see where this goes.

Now if we could just bludgeon all the electronic equipment manufacturers into making 1 standardized charging connection,....

tbburg said:

Now if we could just bludgeon all the electronic equipment manufacturers into making 1 standardized charging connection,....

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Like starting with the companies who make Li-Po's for r/c applications, the different balance plugs for each manufacturer and sometimes within manufactuers are almost enough to drive me nuts:banghead:

They are actually doing that on cell phones, even between the same manufacturer, Motorola, I have had 4 different chargers, the newest one on the V750 is even smaller than the one on the razr and 755. Now I have 5 razr/755 chargers and two data cables I can't use on my 750 unless I buy the adapter dongle for $10 each.
I'm going to put all our wall wart phone/headset chargers, 6, on a power strip and turn the thing off every morning.

These guys just got REAL interesting in late news today. I have been following their stock for 3 months ( I think I posted it here somewhere earlier but it did not turn up in my search...., about how they beat lithium ion and Nickel metal hydrides in a recent DOE test for cycle speed,, charge, discharge speeds, using a carbon anode in a lead acid battery, and they got something like 3000 charge discharge cycles with an increase in energy density, and no loss in performance!), and I finally bought some of their stock last week. Tonights news should start this stock sailing, as they had little sales so far, start up, 1 year old IPO, with losses so far, but they seem to have signed a large battery contract with the big boys at Exide!

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...D8CF-DA76-4410-816C-009249C8F258}&dist=pfbeta

Ecomike said:

... signed a large battery contract with the big boys at Exide!

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Just FYI Exide's largest distributor, NAPA, just dropped them in favor of Johnson Controls. That's bound to give Exide a hit to the ol' wallet.

I'm not sure if they announced it or not, but I got the memo at work about 2 weeks ago that we were switching over to JC.

Damn, I have an Exide gel-cell I needed to turn in on warranty. Guess I better hurry up and do that.

GrimmJeeper said:

Just FYI Exide's largest distributor, NAPA, just dropped them in favor of Johnson Controls. That's bound to give Exide a hit to the ol' wallet.

I'm not sure if they announced it or not, but I got the memo at work about 2 weeks ago that we were switching over to JC.

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Interesting, thanks. I did not see that in the news on Exide & NAPA, not the kind of thing they would push in the news, unless it was a real huge hit. A lot of news is spin to sell stock. I knew JC was into new battery R & D big time (Part of the new DOE electric car and grid battery R & D consortium), but I did not know they were into lead acid car batteries. I wonder if JC makes their own LA batteries?