The new battery, dubbed SCiB, will be used in an electric bike from Schwinn. Seems more resistant to fast charging than many other Li based batteries. Too bad the energy density is closer to NiMH batteries – I don’t think a Tesla can be powered by these.
The safety characteristics of SCiB allow recharge with a current as large as 50A, allowing the SCiB Cell and SCiB Standard Module to recharge to 90% of full capacity in only five minutes, according to Toshiba. Toshiba is developing a 3.0 Ah high-power version of the SCiB cell specifically for hybrid electric vehicle (HEV) applications.
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