A Swiss company has developed a battery that can store three times the energy of a regular lithium ion battery. They base the storage size by volume, meaning, they can hold three AA 9v batteries equivalent to one size AA 9v battery. The battery is a rechargeable zinc-air battery.
They are planning to release the batteries in small size units first. Starting from hearing aids and cellphones. Hopefully they will be integrating them into electric bikes and self charging alternators so that we will never have to plug and charge our bikes. Imagine going downhill and having it charge your Zinc-Air battery and then reusing it to go back up the same hill. Will be an amazing improvement.
SINTEF is the development of the technology. It is a company in Norway ran by the company's CEO James McDougall. A $25 million euro investment for this technology and hopefully it blows up so that we have a more green produce even if it is stated as an oxymoron.
This will help fuel cell technology advance a little further. And most importantly the electric vehicle industry that is grow and blowing up. I wonder if this is the electric motor era combined with the dot coms'. The outdated lithium-ion and zinc batteries are being improved and over ran by the new age technology of zinc-air batteries