Posts Tagged cheap battery

New Breakthrough Electrode Allows 40,000+ Recharges for Future Batteries

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on November 24, 2011

A Stanford team of researchers have succeeded making a battery electrode that would be a perfect fit for storing large amounts of electricity in large amounts of space using tiny amounts of money. Although they only have a few grams of the new material, their expectations are far greater. In lab tests, the electrode co-developed [...]


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Newly Invented Energy-Storing Organic Membrane Better and Cheaper Than Batteries and Capacitors

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on October 27, 2011

An organic membrane may be the world’s next best battery and may revolutionize energy storage as we know it – it can bear far more energy than capacitors can, and can charge quicker than ever. Not to mention that it’s also dead-cheap. The energy-storing membrane has been invented by a team from the NUS Nanoscience [...]


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Qinetiq's Lithium Iron Sulfide Batteries – 50% Cheaper, 50% More Potent

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on January 5, 2010

Lithium Ion batteries have been the preferred storage medium in hybrid vehicles lately. Qinetiq, a UK-based defense technology company, is investing money in their new type of Li-Ion battery, that could be half cheaper than regular models being used today.


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Jay Whitacre's New & Cheap Sodium-Ion Batteries Funded by DOE

Posted by Ovidiu Sandru in Energy Storage on December 11, 2009

Sodium is several orders of magnitude more available than lithium, and that makes it cheaper to use in batteries. Taking into account the destination of the projected batteries, to act like a buffer for storing renewable electricity, low voltages are enough, so making the technology cheaper by using a water-based electrolyte wasn’t hard to think of.


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