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Sony Will Double Lithium Ion Battery Output
News According to Japanese reports, the electronics giant will boost capacity to 15 million units by April 1998. As well as notebooks, the units also go into mobile phones and other devices.
[December 12, 1996, 15:04]
Start-up Introduces Safer Notebook Battery
News Boston-Power plans to show off a battery on Tuesday that it claims is a lot like conventional lithium-ion batteries but with a difference: it is less likely to blow up. Last week, A123 Systems, which makes lithium-ion batteries for plug-in hybrid...
[January 31, 2007, 7:59]
Lenovo Recalls Laptop Batteries Over Fire Risk
News The batteries were designed by Lenovo, but Sony produced the lithium ion cell. The problem with the recalled notebook batteries rests with lithium ion battery cells made by Sony. Like the gas tank in a car, lithium ion batteries in most instances...
[September 29, 2006, 8:40]
Future Of Notebook Batteries: Lithium Polymer?
News Notebook makers are "likely" to soon choose to incorporate lithium polymer batteries over the current commonly used type, lithium ion batteries, Sony Electronics president Stan Glasgow said during a meeting with reporters on Wednesday.
[December 8, 2006, 8:15]
Alcohol Gives New Life To Thirsty Portables
News Both companies are developing fuel cells that turn methanol directly into electricity and could have many times the capacity of current lithium-ion batteries. Such cells are around 20 percent more efficient than existing fuel cells, says NEC, and...
[September 3, 2001, 17:14]
Twist Of Phosphate Means Better Batteries
News The Austin, Texas-based company announced on Monday that it has developed a new technology that offers longer battery life and will cost less than current lithium-ion batteries. In a nutshell, the company is replacing cobalt with phosphate as the...
[February 12, 2002, 10:31]
Thin Is In For New Toshiba Notebook
News It employs the company's new 4.6cm, 20GB hard drive and a lithium-ion polymer battery. To that end, Toshiba also employs a lithium-ion polymer battery, which uses technology that is both thinner and flatter than that of standard lithium-ion batteries.
[February 18, 2002, 11:11]
Toshiba Touts Slimmer, Stronger Batteries
News ALB costs about 20 percent more than lithium-ion batteries but slightly less than lithium-polymer ones. Both can be molded to about 1mm, compared with standard lithium-ion batteries that are about 5mm thick.
[February 13, 2001, 13:49]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog After all, Sony makes lithium-ion cells for just about everyone. I've long held lithium-ion batteries in a mixture of gratitude, resentment, fear and awe. Resentment, because every last manufacturer makes their own unique battery packs for each...
[August 18, 2006, 20:35]
ACi Notebook Sports MMX, XGA LCD, USB
News As well as nickel metal-hydride and lithium ion chemistries, the Meteor can also be powered by a pair of standard Duracell DR36 batteries. ACi has also begun shipping a 166MHz Pentium MMX-based slimline notebook with 16Mb RAM, 1.4Gb hard drive and...
[April 21, 1997, 11:11]
HP Targets Firms With Long-life Laptop Battery
News It is a 12-cell Lithium ion unit, while previously HP's top-end battery product was an eight-cell Lithium ion unit that gave an extra five hours. HP launched a new laptop battery on Monday that it claims will give a mobile worker up to ten hours of...
[March 7, 2006, 16:10]
Magnificent MEMS And The Micro-machines
News The difference is that lithium-ion is electrically charged, while methane provides thermal (i.e.it burns) energy. Currently, a kilogram of lithium-ion, the same material used in notebook batteries, provides about 400 watt-hours of energy.
[February 25, 2003, 10:58]
Get Ready For The 9-to-5 Notebook
News For instance, start-up Zinc Matrix Power has devised a way to produce batteries out of zinc alkaline that can provide more energy than conventional lithium ion batteries but don't take up any more space inside a laptop, according to Mike Trainor...
[June 7, 2005, 11:25]
Dell To Recall 4.1m Laptop Batteries
News In cell phones, lithium ion batteries can overheat because of a short circuit. Lithium ion batteries are used in consumer electronics and notebooks, which only require a limited amount of energy. Lithium ion batteries have two to three times the...
[August 15, 2006, 8:35]
Researchers Claim Battery-life Breakthrough
News The researchers have found a way to use silicon nanowires to give rechargeable lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries, used in laptops, iPods, video cameras and mobile phones, as much as 10 times more charge.
[January 15, 2008, 8:10]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog The figures look fantastic - as much capacity as current lithium ion cells but capable of being charged in a minute. Thursday 31/3/2005 There are reports abroad of a new battery technology from Toshiba.
[April 1, 2005, 19:35]
Portable Devices Need High-Performance Battery Chargers
White Papers As a result, there have been great strides in battery technology, with lithium-ion and lithium-polymer among the more popular battery chemistries. The proliferation of portable devices in recent years has underlined the need for small, efficient...
[February 5, 2004, 23:00]
Air Travellers Unfazed By US Lithium-battery Ruling
News The department added that most lithium-ion mobile phone and standard notebook computer batteries are not affected by the regulations as they do not exceed an equivalent of eight grams of lithium content.
[January 22, 2008, 15:07]
Notebook Fuel Cell A Reality This Year?
News Devices such as mobile phones, notebook computers, cameras, PDAs and MP3 players tend to use Lithium-ion batteries, which experts claim are approaching the limit of their capacity. Fuel cells, which generally use alcohols for fuel, can offer up to...
[March 10, 2005, 17:00]
NEC Sets Sail With Transmeta's Crusoe
News It is fitted with a 10.4-inch reflective thin-film transistor (TFT) display and a lithium-ion polymer battery of NEC's own design. Li-ion polymer batteries are thin and flat, which make them much sought after, but they have been a long time coming...
[October 17, 2000, 14:34]
