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Toshiba's One-Minute-Recharge Li-ion Batteries

Posted by timothy on from the zap-zap-zap dept.

TheGuano writes "No idea if this is related to Altair's six-minute-charge Li-ions,, but Toshiba has just announced a similar Li-ion that recharges to 80% capacity in one minute, while losing only 1% total capacity after 1000 cycles. It's set to debut in 2006 for use in hybrid cars (my current Toshiba Satellite doesn't get very far on battery power, but it's a beautiful shade of blue), but 'should' make its way to other, hopefully smaller devices eventually."

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  1. Nice but... by klatty · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm still waiting out for wireless power :-D

    1. Re:Nice but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Is that you, Nikola?

    2. Re:Nice but... by Marko+DeBeeste · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, if Tesla had only overcome that pesky "Hair-and-teeth-falling-out-in-bloody-clumps" problem.

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  2. sigh heard round the world by peculiarmethod · · Score: 3, Funny

    women sigh round the world heavily, while dreaming of AA size waterproof versions.

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    1. Re:sigh heard round the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
      women sigh round the world heavily, while dreaming of AA size waterproof versions.

      Huh why?

      Oh wait a minute... you mean when they get caught out in the rain.. don't you?

    2. Re:sigh heard round the world by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      If they wanted AA size, I'd be getting a lot more action.

    3. Re:sigh heard round the world by iggymanz · · Score: 4, Funny

      and the goat.se guy is wondering if this technology could be used to make 24V deep cycle marine batteries for his 90 lbs. jack hammer

  3. I'm a beta tester... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ok...I just charged these things for exactly one minute. Everything is working fine so fariweofaidfoiafoaif

  4. Ah... but, here's the catch: by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 4, Funny

    These batteries also drain 80% in one minute!

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    1. Re:Ah... but, here's the catch: by yincrash · · Score: 5, Funny

      Actually that would be a very usefull ability if in fact it could discharge 80% of its capacity in a minute, for that would lead to a awesome power-density.

      ah yes. we call them capicitors. what a crazy hitech world this is!

  5. Mine's better by KFK+-+Wildcat · · Score: 5, Funny
    it's a beautiful shade of blue
    Heh, mine's better; it's painted with a super intelligent shade of blue.
  6. Wireless? by AtariAmarok · · Score: 4, Funny
    "I'm still waiting out for wireless power :-D"

    That's fine, but how about my nutty idea? Imagine a service where music could be transmitted wirelessly, and you could have a receiving device even smaller than an iPod to listen to the music with. I wonder if anyone would or could ever invent something like this?

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  7. Re:Perpetual motion machine by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hey - go easy. It's his first day at the patent office.

  8. Re:There go the circuit breakers by tomhudson · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's even worse - the batteries are for a CAR. Plug a few of those babies into your local power drop at the same time, you'll blow a street transformer.

  9. Re:chewbacca's flux capacitor by smithmc · · Score: 5, Funny

    thats roughly 445 horse-power-hours = 336 kilowatt hours or 1.21 gigajoules. if you push in this much energy in say ten minutes that requires a 2 megawatt power source.

    And if you could push that much energy in one second, it'd be 1.21 gigawatts!!

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  10. not stolen - licensed from space aliens by Sean+Clifford · · Score: 3, Funny

    Not stolen - Toshiba *licensed* from space aliens.

  11. Memory? by N+Monkey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wasn't that supposed to be the big selling point for Li-ion battery's several years ago when they first appeared on the horizon. "No recharge memory like Ni-Cad!".
    Well it's clear they don't have "recharge memory". It's more like "recharge Alzheimer's", i.e. they completely forget how to recharge :-(