Toshiba To Launch "Super Charge" Batteries

Posted by kdawson on Thursday December 13, 2007 @05:30AM from the fill-'er-up dept.

ozgood writes in to let us know about Toshiba's announcement that it has developed a new type of rechargeable battery dubbed the Super Charge ion Battery, or SCiB. Toshiba claims the new battery will mainly target the industrial market, though they hint the technology may eventually find a home in electric vehicles. The SCiB can recharge to 90% of total capacity in under five minutes, and has a life span of over 10 years. "Toshiba also says the battery has excellent safety with the new negative electrode material having a high level of thermal stability and a high flash point. The battery is also said to be structurally resistant to internal short-circuiting and thermal runaway."

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High wattage power brick by legoman666 · 2007-12-13 05:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

You're going to need a fairly high powered AC-DC converter to draw the amount of current required to charge a battery to 90% in 5 minutes. My thinkpad has a 65w converter and it gets very hot when charging.
That's great but ... by Stavr0 · 2007-12-13 05:59 · Score: 0, Redundant

How big/heavy of a wall-wart will be required to pump the 50 to 100 A of current to do that?