Car Battery ReInvented
Submitted: Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 19:43
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Saharaman (aka Geepeem)
HI to everyone,
I thought this was an interesting development.
This was an interesting article in The Courier Mail on Friday Sept 26. re the new battery developed by CSIRO. It lasts 4 times longer and has 50% more power than current best battery. It combines a traditional lead acid battery with a supercapacitor, a facility which also stores power. Its called the Ultra battery and the good news it will be 70% cheaper to produce thus making hybrid vehicles cheaper. Present hybrid batteries currently have an 8 year warranty and cost about $4,000. The Ultrabattery is expected to cost $450-$550
The Ultrabattery recently clocked up 160,000km unchanged in a hybrid vehicle.
The rights to manufacture have already been sold to Furakawa Battery company for Japan, and East Penn recently signed up for USA.
CSIRO is currently seeking expressions of interest for Australian rights to manufacture. The Ultrabattery also has application for storage of energy for wind and solar generation.
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This is yet another great Aussie invention on the world stage.
PS I appologise if this has already been posted and discussed. I searched for Ultrabattery and found no threads.
Reply By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 23:09
Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 23:09
Okay...let the arguments begin all over again.....
I like my Supercharge......
No!!!! Exide Extreme is the best!!!!!.......
CAT Batteries are unsurpassed!!!!!!........
I'll stick with Century..........
Optima is the newest and best battery on the block........
etc etc
hahahahahahaha
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Follow Up By: Nomadic Navara - Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 23:52
Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 23:52
"Okay...let the arguments begin all over again....."
What arguments? The batteries you are quoting are all old technology. The thread commenced by advising us of new technology. Let us wait and see what transpires, test it and then comment.
PeterD
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Follow Up By: Member - Ian W (NSW) - Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 05:37
Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 05:37
Roachie's comments were "tongue in cheek".
Ian
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Follow Up By: Member - Roachie (SA) - Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:40
Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:40
Thanks Ian,,,, I meant to put "TIC" at the end.....(but didn't really believe it should have been necessary...hahahaha)
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Reply By: Member - JohnR (Vic) - Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 23:28
Monday, Sep 29, 2008 at 23:28
Saharaman, interesting that it has made it to the Courier Mail. I actually found an ABC interview of March 17th with Dr John Wright discussing it
ABC Innovations
Thanks for pointing it out, it sounds interesting and I hadn't seen anything about it before. Recharge your laptop in a minute I read ealsewhere. WOW
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Reply By: puttputt - Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:10
Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:10
That makes interesting reading, darn, I recently spent $400 on a AGM battery.
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Follow Up By: Maîneÿ (wa) - Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:18
Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 08:18
Fortunately you did not buy the OLD TECHNOLOGY mentioned above :-))
Mainey . . .
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Follow Up By: Nomadic Navara - Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 14:08
Tuesday, Sep 30, 2008 at 14:08
AGM batteries are old technology batteries, they just differ from the others by being starved of electrolyte (hence their alternative tytle of "starved electrolyte batteries.")
Putput - you probably have have not wasted your money. Your AGM battery will probably mean you will last it out with the one battery until the new ones come out and not have to purchase a second one to tide you over.
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Reply By: Nic I (NSW) - Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:00
Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008 at 11:00
This is excellent news, and hopefully will lead to more improvements in battery technology. Power storage is the one really large obstacle to generating and using electricity without using fossil fuels, and it seems that battery design is still a very long way behind other related technologies (like engines), probably because there's been no need for research into improvements until recently.
Perhaps one day batteries will be efficient and cheap, clean to produce and recycle - so much so that all vehicles can be electric, even trucks and offroaders - a nice dream, anyway.
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Reply By: Member - Mike DID - Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008 at 14:03
Wednesday, Oct 01, 2008 at 14:03
You can already buy power supplies that use supercapacitors to provide a higher surge current than a conventional supply.
If you want to build your own, Altronics have just listed a 100 Farad Supercapcitor than can supply 60 amp peaks - R4945.
But they're only rated at 2.7 volt so you'll need to connect 5 in series for a 12 volt system, giving you 20 Farad.
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