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from the probably-ready-in-about-5-years dept.
The Telegraph and Stanford News are reporting a new aluminium-ion cell which is hoped will outperform conventional lithium-ion cells.
As well as charging in 60 seconds, it is claimed, the cell will withstand 7,500 charge/discharge cycles compared with lithium-ion's 1,000 cycles.
Apart from a low 2-volt output, "our battery has everything else you'd dream that a battery should have: inexpensive electrodes, good safety, high-speed charging, flexibility and long cycle life," states Hongjie Dai, Professor of chemistry at Stanford University.
"We have developed a rechargeable aluminium battery that may replace existing storage devices, such as alkaline batteries, which are bad for the environment, and lithium-ion batteries, which occasionally burst into flames."
The research is due to be published in Nature.
(Score: 1) by Wierd0n3 on Wednesday April 08 2015, @12:30AM
USB type-c will give us 100w, so we could still charge the sucker in a few minutes. I suspect we may see these batteries in external charging packs first, that way they can make them without worrying about limited space in the first few runs.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MJ262LL/A/apple-29w-usb-c-power-adapter [apple.com]
not quite 100w (29), but annoyingly, apple has the most reliable USB chargers. (also the first Type-c charger i could find)