Via Autoblog Green, we learn from Xconomy Boston that Boston Power will now take the experience designing better batteries for laptops and tackle traction batteries, i.e., the larger format batteries used for transportation.
“At their newly expanded R&D lab in Westborough, MA, they already have battery modules suitable for power-assisted bicycles and scooters that they are showcasing. Next on the list are power packs for hybrids and all-electric cars.”
Boston Power will try to do for electric vehicles what it did for laptops. The company developed the Sonata brand which recharges faster, packs more energy and last longer than “regular” laptop batteries. They are also safer.
CEO Christina Lampe-Onnerud, founder of the young company, is also a battery researcher and re-engineered the laptop powerpack to take advantage of efficiency gains from re-sizing and re-shaping the individual cells, upgrading materials and eliminating parallel circuits paths in favor of series-only. The result is a battery that will keep your laptop humming for four hours at a time and not lose much in the way of energy capacity over a period of years.
Lampe-Onnerud believes that they have “only scratched the surface of lithium ion technology” and believes it will be the dominant chemistry for many years to come. She also believes that it may take a few years for the market to develop but is certain that it will happen. We hope she is right.
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In China, production of electric two-wheelers has soared from fewer than 200,000 eight years ago to 22 million last year. Fox News has an informative article about global growth of this personal transportation.