Panasonic has on display at CEATEC a “1.5 kWh battery module [made] from 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells, which are widely used in laptop computers, to provide energy storage solutions for a wide range of environmentally friendly energy technologies.” String a couple of these suckers together to store the juice collected from the solar panels on your house, for example.
If solar power is to sissy for you, maybe you’d be interested in the Panasonic Fuel Cell Cogeneration System, which “generates electricity and hot water simultaneously at home”?
Superb stuff !
Is it really 65 m (meter) in length?
No of course not, silly. I’ve updated the post. Thanks for catching that.
umm doesn’t A123 already have a Lithium battery that is widely used in environmentally friendly energy technologies.
The funny thing about this article is that the really cool thing isn’t the battery which is about all this article talks about. It’s the cogeneration system. NOW that’s sexy. But no real info in the article.
That’s a shame.
Wake up and Smell the Coffee…
So true, but you get what you pay for on techcrunch. They really don’t know tech.
And what about pricing info?
That is pretty cool, do you have a link where we can find out more info on the cells?
fuel cells are still running extremely hot, very exciting once they figure that out
check out http://www.sfc.com for “mobile fuel cells” as well!
Gents, the cost of charging a battery is about 10x the cost of electricity from the grid. About $1/kwh, versus about 5- 15cents /kwh from your wall socket.
A Lithium-Ion battery cost about $1000/kwh, and the most you will ever see out of such a battery is about a 1 full charges equivalent. So each charge cycle costs about $1/kwh in battery depreciation cost.
Yeah I know, its a bummer.
Give me a cheap super-capacitor and then we are cooking with gas.
And I’ll take a molten carbonate fuel cell.
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The cost of charging a battery is about 10x the cost of electricity from the grid. About $1/kwh, versus about 5- 15cents /kwh from your wall socket.
A Lithium-Ion battery cost about $1000/kwh, and the most you will ever see out of such a battery is about a 1000 full charge cycles equivalent. So each charge cycle costs about $1/kwh in battery depreciation cost.
Yeah I know, its a bummer.
Give me a cheap super-capacitor and then we are cooking with gas.
Both these items/technologies point to a bright future.
I was thinking you could construct a cabin in a remote region to get away from all the mass insanity in urban areas. This cabin could have power at $0 cost aside from the upfront expenditure for the collection and storage systems, assuming no replacement and that these huge batteries are not going to crap out in 5 years.
About the Hydrogen cell… well… Hydrogen is not commercially available to the public, is very explosive, and hard to even store because of the small (the smallest) size of the atomic nucleus. It can slowly seep out of closed containers!
This is what the Hybrid Adapter needs — hopefuly it will help drive down costs.
The cost of batteries and motors are killing the green vehicle conversion revolution
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wow it is so nice info,, so cool stuff for automotive world
Hidden in the trough of the next natural cycle of economic downturn of the American economy is the greatest deepest depression the world has ever seen! Batteries like this, currently priced out of the range of the general populace, and built almost exclusively for a Japanese market of very frugal power users, will hardly help the great hulking American Neanderthals and their excessively extravagant power wasting habits and they will be shocked and dismayed when they discover nobody on earth has even the scale of resources they take for granted every day! A sad day of reckoning to be sure, but as the dollar falls like a stone, and oil rises like a hot air balloon, nobody in America sees it coming! And it is coming! In the much smaller better fabricated super insulate Japanese dwelling this is a major power source for four or more people, smaller faster lighter vegan, educated people to be sure, and all they need for daily power use! Not so for the American who would as the article indicates, string a few of these together for his less modest demands, but he is going bankrupt as we speak, and cannot even afford cash price of one unit! Such innocent ‘entitlement” Whom does he propose to pay for this?