08 February 2010

Eamex's Technology Boosts
Lithium-Ion Battery Life To 20 Years

For years we've been promised about super fast charging and longer-lasting batteries that will liberate using of mobile devices, but unfortunately none have materialized onto the market and despite rapid progress in technology, dry cell batteries have not progressed much beyond alkaline battery introduced more than a forty years ago.

Just as you can never be too rich or too pretty, you'll never complain about a battery that lasts too long and despite disappointments with so many 'breakthroughs' in batteries technology over the years there are several new developments could be about to come to the rescue and make batteries more efficient and last longer!

Thankfully, it would seem that Japanese company Eamex have found a new way to increase the typical average life of a high-capacity lithium-ion battery.

What Eamex has done is figure out a way to stabilize the electrodes and prevent the deterioration of tin. Why's this important? Because it means the batteries can withstand a lot more charge and discharge cycles. We're talking about over 10,000 cycles with a shelf life of 20 years.

Unlike other battery technologies, you don't have to wait a decade for this one to come to market. Eamex says it will ship a battery with about 10,000W of power per kilogram (suitable for electric cars and scooters) by the end of 2010.