tagged w/ Hybrid Battery
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" Earlier this year in January, Australia's CSIRO Energy Technology divulged about a new battery for hybrid cars called UltraBattery. It is technically a lead-acid battery and supercapacitator in one. Lead-acid generally can't be used for hybrid cars because they develop chemical deposits when subject to rapid and continuous charging and discharging.
That's a loss for the hybrid vehicle industry because lead acid has the capacity to store large amounts of energy. By coupling it with a supercapacitator though, it can do its purpose sans the problematic chemical deposits.
According to CSIRO, UltraBattery exhibits up to 50 percent more power than current NiMH batteries and would cost around one-third to one-fourth the latter's price.
In Japan, Furukawa Battery Company will start manufacturing UltraBatteries by mid-2009 while East Penn from Pennsylvania will make the batteries for the USA..."
" Earlier this year in January, Australia's CSIRO Energy Technology divulged... more
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