10 Second Charge Battery Developed. Ish
Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Japan’s National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology have co-developed a nickel-hydrogen battery that recharges in less than 10 seconds, the Nikkei [sub] reports. That should get your plug-in EV or hybrid back on the road much faster than getting a tank of gas, a coffee and a doughnut. The new battery’s performance barely declines even after 1,000 quick charges, the developers say. That’s the good news. The bad news:
Kawasaki Heavy won’t have the battery ready for sale before five years are over. And when they are ready, they will go into trolleys, trams and buses. It’s a space thing. Not as in Buck Rogers. Space as in room to lug the thing around.
Hybrid automobiles currently use nickel-hydrogen batteries, but are moving to more powerful lithium ion. Large vehicles that have plenty of space, can accommodate the high-performance nickel-hydrogen batteries.
How about them Hummers?
Bertel Schmitt comes back to journalism after taking a 35 year break in advertising and marketing. He ran and owned advertising agencies in Duesseldorf, Germany, and New York City. Volkswagen A.G. was Bertel's most important corporate account. Schmitt's advertising and marketing career touched many corners of the industry with a special focus on automotive products and services. Since 2004, he lives in Japan and China with his wife <a href="http://www.tomokoandbertel.com"> Tomoko </a>. Bertel Schmitt is a founding board member of the <a href="http://www.offshoresuperseries.com"> Offshore Super Series </a>, an American offshore powerboat racing organization. He is co-owner of the racing team Typhoon.
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Clueless comments about. We already have "10-second charge" batteries, those are called capacitors, in some cases supercapacitors. Quite a few of new breed of power lithium batteries are 10-minute charge capable as well, meaning they have high C rating for both charge and discharge. Kawasaki put another one together, fine. Charge rate hasnt been a problem in a while. Delivering the burst of energy from the grid would be a problem, but if you have a battery in a car that can charge in 10 seconds, you can have a similar stationary battery that can discharge in 10 secons. Or a flywheel, those are already in use to stabilize grids. Now getting the charge from one battery to another would still require fat power cables, but even there it would be possible to up the voltage, or use magnetic coupling. None of these problems are unsolveable, the charging infrastructure will develop in future and become quite flexible, depending on which direction the auto manufacturers take ( quick charges, battery swaps, tricklecharge from solar, range extenders etc etc ) And as for the "electricity from coal isnt green" claims, go get a clue. Even the Prius produces about three times Co2 per mile, when compared to an efficient battery-electric like Roadster, powered from coal-derived electricity.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor Go buy them from Maxwell BATTERY Charge rate hasnt been a problem, pumping megawatts over the wire obviously is, and as pointed out, there are workable solutions.
Oh everyone knows they've been invented here for ages. They're only novel to your universe. BATTERY Charge rate hasnt been a problem, pumping megawatts over the wire obviously is, and as pointed out, there are workable solutions. Oh really? So they already invented diamond powered freeze rays in your universe to resolve the potentially K-MW's of resistive heating we're talking about at those charge rates?