New mobile phone battery that charges in 60 seconds.

[gindygoo]

http://news.sky.com/story/1459847/the-mobile-battery-that-charges-in-one-minute

Well this looks interesting, I wonder how long it'll be in r&d, and how long until it's realised?

Other implications are electric car batteries, now this would make ecars much more appealing imo.

Charlie.

[perksie]

I should give it at least ten years before they get this right. 

[Cleoriff]

Not being negative at all about this @gindygoo  but a simple question. If you have a battery that can do that....surely the device you need charging has to be compatible with the battery? (or would we see fires or even worse.... explosions?)

[gindygoo]

@Cleoriff good point, I'd expect that this would be a definite consideration in the development stages though.

U might be onto something nonetheless, we could see only new devices fitted with these, but you'd think they would be the least restrictive as possible?

C.

[Anonymous]

It has great promise - it's a aluminium anode with a graphite cathode battery with an electrolyte that is a salt that is liquid at room temperature, so the battery can be flexible. Life cycle is predicted at up to 7500 charge cycles without any loss of capacity, so a huge improvement over current batteries Li ion batteries - not to mention improved safety aspects over Li ion batteries.

Aluminium is muc cheaper that Lithium so cost benefits could be huge too - however the new battery can not match the performance of current Li ion batteries, producing about half the voltage, so some work is needed before it could be considered a viable replacement - still it's early days for the new battery, and it looks very promising.