Next Gen 3-D Lithium Ion Batteries may reduce charging times dramatically!

Colorado State University Researchers Developing Fast Charging Lithium Ion Battery Technology

One big gremlin that Electric Cars continue to face is that of the time taken for a Lead Acid or Lithium Ion battery to get juiced up. All this could change in the future as researchers from Colorado State University have demonstrated. The researchers have developed a Lithium Ion Battery, the size of a mobile phone battery, which uses copper antimonide nano wires to store Lithium Ions.

Through this, the battery is able to store in 3-D form, double the number of lithium ions in it when compared to conventional lithium ion batteries. What this could potentially do is, it could make recharging the new generation 3-D Lithium Ion batteries in just 12 minutes, which is a vast improvement from the time of two hours that is usually taken by conventional lithium ion batteries.

While the technology still remains to be tested on large batteries that are of the size that conventional electric cars used, it remains an interesting prospect for the future of electric vehicle technology. This technology could be commercialized in the next two years. Meanwhile, here is what the project’s team leader, Amy Prieto, had to say about the 3-D Lithium Ion Battery.

It’s going to take a new generation of batteries to do so, and we hope our 3-D battery is poised to be at the forefront. If our battery works to its potential, it could be the ideal battery for an electric car.

Via Wired

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April 10, 2011 | By Jay Prashanth · Tags:

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One Response to “Next Gen 3-D Lithium Ion Batteries may reduce charging times dramatically!”

Sufiy on April 11th, 2011 2:10 am

We have the breaking news from Germany and DBM Energy. Information is very scarce at best and only in German so far. Revelations from this hidden in the heart of Germany company are groundbreaking: KOLIBRI Lithium Metal Polymer Batteries (Lithium-Polymer-based technology) have passed extensive independent safety tests and demonstrated endurance of 5000 charging cycles. New independent test confirms 454.82 km driving range on one charge! But company claims that the battery in this case was smaller: KOLIBRI 62.928 kWh and that it translates in 714 km range in case of previously used 98.8 kWn battery in the DBM World Record Electric Car Drive in October 2010! To put things into perspective, in case when you drive 225 km every day you will need to recharge the car equipped with this battery every other day and this battery will last 27 years.

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