Fast charging battery: 90 percent in 90 seconds

Toshiba were rumoured to have been initaly planning an April 2009 launch for this new technology but held off because of the recession and market conditions. The super charge ion battery could revolutionise technology and uses nanotechnology to rapidly charge in a couple of minutes (90 percent in 90 seconds) and recharges up to 6000 times (on a laptop).

The battery is planned for use in a variety of other applications and not just laptops. Car batteries are one such application so this could have implications for wheelchair batteries.

So, we shall wait with bated breath for Toshiba to launch this new technology.

Update: 13 May 2010

'Production of the battery, which has been in development for several years, has already begun for the industrial market at the relatively low volume of 150,000 cells per month. Toshiba will increase that to several tens of millions of cells per month at a new factory it plans to build in Kashiwazaki in Niigata prefecture in north west Japan, it said last week. Construction of the factory will begin in late 2009 and production is scheduled to begin a year later, said Hiroko Mochida, a Toshiba spokeswoman'. (Toshiba gears up for fast charging battery, techworld.com, 29th December 2008)