[Oeva-list] MIT research: Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries

[steve boser]

I listened to part of it, I was thinking to myself is this really something
all that new? I thought this was the material A123 is using in their
batteries.

Thanks

Steve

2009/3/16 Philip Kollas <pkollas at comcast.net>

>  Did anyone else hear the NPR Science Friday broadcast on 3-13-09, in
> which an MIT professor of materials & engineering talked about their
> discovery?  He said they had found that tweaking lithium with iron phosphate
> (iron phosphate being the same material that battery giant BYD is now going
> with for their rechargeable cars) made for a much-quicker recharge time as
> well as greater acceleration.  The recharge time went from hours down to
> about a minute.
>
> If this is true and the new material can be incorporated into an affordable
> technology for EV batteries, it seems we would have overcome one of the
> common objections to EVs (lengthy recharge time).
>
> Thanks, Philip Kollas
>
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