NEC Develops Fastest Rechargeable Battery
Found on NikkeiBP on Tuesday, 06 April 2004
NEC Corp has developed a battery that can be recharged only in 30 seconds, company sources said. Called an organic radical battery, it can be recharged to the same level of power as that stored in nickel-hydrogen cells, which are widely used in digital cameras, portable MD players and other electronic devices.
The company plans to convert existing production facilities into ones able to manufacture the new product. The company expects the price of the new battery to be about the same as nickel-hydrogen cells when mass production starts, since it does not contain any expensive materials.
The company will initially try to commercialize the technology for using the battery as an emergency power source for computers, according to sources at NEC.
I just finished recharging the batteries for my digicam. It took a bunch of hours until they were full again. Since I currently only have one working set of batteries, it always means a larger break when they are running low.