The “Break it Down” Blog

The company is called EEStore and they are being incredibly tight-lipped about their new battery technology that they are going to roll out this year into some hybrid vehicles and eventually down into consumer electronics (my guess in the next 2 years), for a quick summary of the battery tech:

The company boldly claims that its system, a kind of battery-ultracapacitor hybrid based on barium-titanate powders, will dramatically outperform the best lithium-ion batteries on the market in terms of energy density, price, charge time, and safety. Pound for pound, it will also pack 10 times the punch of lead-acid batteries at half the cost and without the need for toxic materials or chemicals, according to the company.

So it’s 10x of old school lead-acid batteries but not necessarily lithium-ion. So I don’t think we are going to be seeing the 10-hour laptop runtimes just yet, but hopefully by 2010 that should be common place. Constantly recharging my batteries as I get notices from the battery utility that my POS Sony Ultrabay battery (the 2nd one I’ve had in 4 months) is already degraded (again) to 45% of it’s original capacity… NICE JOB Sony.