Battery Life News

[jmagid51]

From USA TODAY

Stanford breakthrough could triple battery life

Annoyed by how often your cellphone needs recharging? Stanford researchers say they've made a major step toward the "holy grail" of energy storage — a pure lithium battery. A team that includes former Energy secretary Steven Chu says it's building a lithium anode battery that might give electric vehicles a 300-mile driving range and triple a cellphone's juice. Stanford professor Yi Cui says it will likely take three to five years, though, to bring the product to market. Their work is partly of an intensifying push to build a better battery — not only for portable electronics but also for storing solar and wind power for times when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow. Universities, start-ups and major companies are working with new materials, such as vanadium, or tweaking the lithium-ion battery that Sony introduced more than 20 years ago.

Stanford breakthrough might triple battery life

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[Indoler]

From USA TODAY

Stanford breakthrough might triple battery life

1) When?
2) At what cost?

 

[srkmagnus]

It's going to be a longtime before we see that. But definitely something to look forward to in the future.

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[UJ95x]

We've had reports of this for a few years now. There's always a "breakthrough" but they are never viable because of the cost or availability of the material/method used.
I think I'll hold off on getting excited until one of them is actually implemented into a phone.

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