air battery Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:59:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Zinc Air Batteries Just Got Rechargeable https://www.greenoptimistic.com/zinc-air-batteries-just-got-rechargeable-20091029/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/zinc-air-batteries-just-got-rechargeable-20091029/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 06:59:54 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=5031 A Swiss company based in Staefa, claims it developed zinc-air batteries, capable to hold three times the energy of lithium ion batteries, by volume, while costing only half as much," and compared with other existing air batteries, this one would be rechargeable.

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