Lithium Battery Technology Breakthrough: Charge Your Cell Phone In 10 Seconds

Battery Science — 11 March 2009

lifepo4_particles

A new lithium battery technology breakthrough could potentially lead to batteries charging in as little as ten seconds. This astonishing technology would be nothing less than revolutionary, allowing a multitude of new applications and greatly changing how we do things.

Gone would be the days of running out of cell phone power. Gone would be the days of the gasoline automobile, replaced by an almost unlimited range of an electric vehicle. And countless other limitations placed on battery powered technology? all *poof*.

Too good to be true? Possibly, due to the limitations of our electric grid. These batteries, as you would imagine, slurp up a horrendous amount of power. In 10 seconds, a 1Wh cell phone battery would draw in 360W of power while an electric vehicle battery would pull in 180 freakin’ kW in 5 minutes! If a few thousand of these charged at the same time…hello national blackout day.

[Arstechnica]

About Author

albert

Jake

That’s awesome. So many times of when I’ve forgotten to charge my phone and had to leave it at home dead.

http://www.gadgetreview.com Christen da Costa

Hey Jake,
I just wonder how long it will take for it to end up in our phones.

http://gadgetreview.com Rick Moschilli

Wow, if only people would read about the Solar energy breakthroughs we could really kick the asses of our electrical devices.
Christian

There would not be a problem on charging the cars. One can solve the problem of over loading the grid by charging battery modules at a controlled rate processed by the car’s CPU. Say there are 19 modules of batteries. The car’s CPU would charge a module at a time or two at a time depending of the desired mode of charging required for the type of charging. Imagine charging your car 4-5 hours at night, then have a second mode were you can stop at a electric recharge station and “fill your car up electrons” in 5 to 10 minutes. The recharge stations would ofcourse have the infrastructure to not damage the current flawed electric grid. One we update the national grid and solve this dilema we can improve the methods.