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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]
Researchers claim lithium-ion battery breakthrough
News Stefan Koller, a researcher at the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) in Austria, told ZDNet UK on Monday that the gel was designed for use with lithium-ion batteries. However, the problem with using silicon gel as a substrate is that it...
[November 2, 2009, 15:49]
Inside a notebook battery pack review
Reviews Lithium ion batteries aren't so much popular in modern mobile IT as essential. Those same attributes make lithium ion dangerous. The most impressive part of lithium ion batteries isn't that they can go catastrophically wrong, but that they only do...
[August 17, 2006, 13:20]
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]
Start-up looks to extend battery life
News Intel-backed start-up ZPower may be the first to introduce an alternative to the ubiquitous lithium-ion laptop battery, with a silver-zinc technology the company says will make its debut with a large laptop maker in 2009.
[October 9, 2008, 13:08]
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]
System Information
Downloads Alkaline Rechargeable Alkaline Nickel Cadmium Lithium Ion Lithium Ion 1400 Nickel Metal Hydride Processor Types Everything you ever wanted to know about your Palm device system and more. OS version, battery info, processor type, screen resolution...
[January 3, 2006, 7:00]
Engineers discover key to quick-charging batteries
News If a lithium ion at the surface is directly in front of a tunnel entrance, it can quickly deliver a charge. US engineers have found a way to make lithium batteries that are smaller, lighter, longer lasting and capable of recharging in seconds.
[March 12, 2009, 16:33]
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]
PC firms boost battery life via power-efficient parts
News Netbooks may boost demand for lithium-ion polymer batteries, according to electronics giant Sony. Last month, Sony opened a lithium-ion polymer battery plant in Singapore, its first in south-east Asia.
[September 15, 2008, 11:29]
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]
