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Toshiba developed a lithium battery that does not use cobalt and can charge 80% in 5 minutes. - Ev-riders (ev-riders.com)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (33 children)

the battery in question is only 1.5ah at 3 volts.

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[–] ForgotAboutDre 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All large batteries are just smaller batteries wired in series for more voltage and parallel for more capacity. Both these numbers are reasonable and comparable to most battery tech.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

According to Yasuhiro Harada, principal researcher at the Nanomaterials Research Laboratory at Toshiba Research and Development Center, “To implement this technology for automotive use, 50 Ah or 100 Ah is needed, and we need to increase the capacity to achieve this goal. “

This sounds like it's still not comparable to existing Li-ion.

[–] Rednax 1 points 1 year ago

The article is to short to draw conclusions from. For example their concern could be with temperature or with charging speed when linking many modules together.

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