Sulfur-based battery {4X capacity of Li-Ion}___________

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I'm seeing more electric motorbikes in the future

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...-safer-cheaper-more-powerful-than-lithium-ion

orbital said:

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I'm seeing more electric motorbikes in the future

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...-safer-cheaper-more-powerful-than-lithium-ion

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Great catch on this article. A lot of future advances are held back by battery technology this would definitely be a leap forward. However they do not talk about the battery's ability to charge and discharge. If it can only discharge at low currents then this would severely hamper this battery technology.

I think the development of a new battery technology that recently happened is more monumental. It allows the battery to charge and discharge 1000 times faster than what is currently available. And although the capacity of the battery has not gone up the ability to recharge and discharge will play a greater impact going into the future. Here is a brief article describing this technology. http://www.treehugger.com/clean-tec...-recharge-1000-times-faster-current-tech.html


Now if they can combine both of these together.

orbital said:

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I'm seeing more electric motorbikes in the future

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/...-safer-cheaper-more-powerful-than-lithium-ion

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Thanks for posting the article. This could be truly game changing. 4x the storage (at reasonable cost) puts this into the range of high consumer coverage for requirements for an automobile. I think this is real early stage from the research abstract, but still excellent news. Would be interesting to see what the cycle life comes in at.

Semiman

Another article on this research appeared today on Engadget.

Looks like low power density and slow charging are both serious drawbacks to this technology. If these can't be corrected, this technology will be a dead end.