Lithium Sulfur rechargeable battery

Juniper Foo | Mar 20, 2006

Your next power source might well come with the acronym Li-S. Sion Power reckons its new Lithium-Sulfur batteries will deliver better batteries for tomorrow's tech devices. It's shown that a single charge of Li-S can keep an HP TC1000 tablet PC going an entire day. No mean feat there considering even the most hardy notebook battery konks out after a marathon 6 hours. The good news: Intel is apparently working with Sion Power to incorporate Li-S as a key ingredient in notebook PC batteries. The not-so-good news: It's much heavier than Lithium-ion and lasts up to only 60 recharge cycles. Hopefully, by the time commerical production revs up in early 2008, these shortfalls will be addressed.

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Price: N.A.
Availability: H1 2008
Device: Rechargeable battery
Basic specs: 11 x 35 x 55mm, 2.2Ah cell, specific energy of 350 watt hours per kg

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