20 year lifecycle 10,000 cycle count Lithium batteries

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20 year lifecycle 10,000 cycle count Lithium batteries

Postby cianof » Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:35 pm

A Japanese company called Eamex claims it has found a way [JP] to increase the life of high-capacity lithium-ion batteries (that can be used in electric vehicles). Eamex says the new batteries can be charged and discharged over 10,000 times. Apparently, they can last about 20 years, too.


http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/02/04/new-technology-extends-lithium-ion-battery-life/

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Re: 20 year lifecycle 10,000 cycle count Lithium batteries

Postby 3xe - electric cars » Sun Feb 07, 2010 1:49 pm

It looks nice, but:

"The company says it plans to introduce a lithium-ion battery with a power density of 10,000 W/kg by the end of this year. "

When such technology will be available on the market?

Some time ago there was something about MIT research:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7938001.stm

Maybe it will be faster on the market.

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Re: 20 year lifecycle 10,000 cycle count Lithium batteries

Postby MB » Thu Feb 11, 2010 10:39 pm

Another electric vehicle manufacturer have been working with another battery provider. They reckon that they too have hit the 10,000 cycle life on batteries, although they reckon 'only' 17½ years for battery life.

Mind you, the batteries aren't cheap...
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Re: 20 year lifecycle 10,000 cycle count Lithium batteries

Postby badnewswade » Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:11 am

Exactly, if theyr'e as insanely expensive as all the other Liths it doesn't matter how long they last. Lithiums, and electric vehicles generally, won't really achieve take-off until the price drops at the very least by 50%. Personally I don't see this happening due to a combination of recession and ripoff profiteering by the industry, but I'd totally love it to happen. I've started a thread on lith prices if anyone's interested...
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