Sunday, April 03, 2005 - 10:53 PM PST
Toshiba's new lithium-ion battery recharges in a minute:
Initial applications will be in the automotive and industrial sectors... [...] For example, the battery's advantages in size, weight and safety highly suit it for a role as an alternative power source for hybrid electric vehicles.
This is incredible. It recharges 60 times faster than the standard today, and has a host of other improvements. I had no idea so much power was being wasted in a charge cycle.
Stick these in a hybrid car, and it'll hardly ever need the combustion engine at all. Or, if recharges are so quick, we might finally start to see 100% electric cars and the infrastructure to recharge in minutes at gas stations -- the same amount of time it'd take you to pump gas.
Why isn't this a bigger story? What am I missing here?
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