Tag archive: lithium ion batteries

General Motors is teaming up with LG to develop electric cars that go beyond the capabilities of the Chevy Volt, a plug-in hybrid gas and electric vehicle. LG Chem, a subsidiary of LG, supplies the lithium ion batteries that power the Volt and other GM electric prototypes. The new deal will go beyond just batteries. According to the joint announcement yesterday, LG will aid with key components related to vehicle structure, architecture, other… Read More

Science has not yet provided us with batteries that can power our electronics for more than 10 hours, but we have learned how to make batteries really small. Researchers at Rice University, led by Professor Pulickel Ajayan, have developed a complete lithium ion battery/supercapacitor hybrid that fits inside a single nanowire. The tiny device is 150 nanometers thick (it takes 1 billion nanometers to equal a single meter) and proves that lithium… Read More

  Lithium-ion batteries are all the rage these days. They power our phones, tablets, laptops, MP3 players, and electric cars. Unfortunately, they have some draw backs. The batteries tend to degrade over time, discharge on their own, and don't provide quite as much energy as our modern electronics and usage habits seem to require. Enter science. A group of Japanese researchers have developed a new material that could triple the energy… Read More

It is almost like German adventurers Dirk Gion and Stefan Simmerer saw the latest models of electric cars, and decided to see if they could go out and make the manufacturers feel bad. In a move that will have green aficionados cheering and gearheads gently weeping at the state of the world, a new electric car powered by a wind turbine has just been unleashed into the Australian wilds. The vehicle, known as the Wind Explorer, uses an electric… Read More

The brain behind the batteries used in everything from New York City transit busses to an electric motorcycle that does 0 to 60 miles per hour in under one second is up to something new. Ken Chiang, a cofounder of lithium-ion battery mogul A123 Systems, is striking out on his own under a new marquee to build batteries that could be up to 85 percent cheaper than anything available today. Chiang will remain at A123, and as a professor of… Read More

Just about all of the gadgets that we take for granted each day from cameras to our notebooks and mobile phones use lithium-ion batteries. These batteries have been around for many years and for the most part are trouble free. However, last year and in 2007 a number of fires and explosions caused by overheating lithium-ion batteries resulted in some of the largest recalls in history. Companies including Sony and many other large computer… Read More

Many retailers have been piling on what has been a long string of bad news for the HD DVD camp and announced they were going to stop selling HD DVD players. Most recently, Best Buy and Netflix indicated they would be dropping HD DVD. Then, one Blu-Ray customer figured out he had been screwed by the Blu-Ray side and started a class action suit against one of the major Blu-Ray companies, something that is likely to accelerate.… Read More

Last month, General Electric raised a few eyebrows by announcing it would be entering the digital camera market with newcomer General Imaging, which is headed up by former Olympus president Hiroshi Komiya. Today at the Photo Marketing Association conference, General Imaging put its camera models were its press releases are, unveiling eight camera models (PDF) designed to appeal to first-time digital camera buyers as well as experienced… Read More

One of the tenets of capitalism is that businesses and manufacturers will quickly jump on any marketing and sales opportunity they believe is viable—and if they're successful, they can quickly lock down a major portion of a market. Following that idea, Matsushita—which is the parent company of the consumer electronics brand Panasonic—announced today (Japanese) that it has boosted its production capacity of… Read More

“The new battery can be refilled to 80 percent of capacity in one minute, Toshiba claimed, significantly less time than the one-to-four hours needed for lithium-ion batteries now in use. According to Toshiba, the secret's in the negative electrode. “Nano-particles prevent organic liquid electrolytes from reducing during battery recharging,” said Toshiba in a statement. “The nano-particles quickly absorb and… Read More

The Gateway M460 notebook was designed to provide maximum battery life and  the widest range of advanced battery options.  It provides from four to seven  hours of battery life on a single charge with one of the primary 6-cell,  8-cell and 12-cell Lithium Ion batteries.  Also, the notebook has a modular  hot-swap bay, so an optional modular 6-cell battery can be used with the  12-cell primary battery to… Read More

Maintaining the same comfort-grip design as previous models of Harmony remotes, the new Harmony 880 features a vibrant, color LCD and finely sculpted buttons that make selecting an activity a breeze. Colorful icons now accompany text on the LCD screen to allow for quick and easy command of home entertainment equipment. The remote is also rechargeable, eliminating the need to change batteries. When the remote is not in use, it rests on an… Read More

The silver-dollar-sized wearable MP3 player weighs just half an ounce and is ideal for people who love to enjoy music on the go. The 256MB Wearable MP3 Player is just $99 and can hold four hours of digital music. Last fall, Virgin Electronics introduced the 128MB Wearable MP3 Player which is priced today at $79. Both products are available at www.virgin.com/electronics and on consumer electronics retail stores nationwide. “Good things… Read More

Better performance, lighter weight and enhanced ergonomics – these were the objectives laid down when developing the new WinBook C series. The new range features Intel Centrino Mobile Technology with the enhanced performance of the Pentium-M Processor 725 (1.6 GHz), and is also offered with the Intel Celeron-M Processor 330 (1.4 GHz). "Even with higher performance levels, WinBook has made the new WinBook C series significantly more… Read More

Cell phones are becoming increasingly multifunctional, equipped with TV viewing and game playing capabilities, and the trend is forcing handsets to consume more power. Currently available lithium-ion batteries for cell phones, however, last only about two hours if users continuously watch TV on their terminals. A handset powered by a fuel cell is expected to last more than twice as long, the sources said. The planned fuel cell would extract… Read More