Toshiba "nanobatteries"

1) Excellent Recharge Performance
The thin battery recharges to 80% of full capacity in only a minute. Total recharge takes only a few more minutes.

2) High Energy Density
Small and light, the new battery offers a high level of storage efficiency. The prototype battery is only 3.8mm thick, 62mm high and 35mm deep and has a capacity of 600mAh.

3) Long Life Cycle
A prototype of new battery (a laminated lithium ion battery with 600mAh capacity) was discharged and fully recharged 1,000 times at a temperature of 25 degrees centigrade and lost only 1% of capacity during the test.

4) Temperature
The new battery operates well in extremes of temperature. It discharges 80% of its capacity at minus 40 degrees centigrade, against 100% at an ambient temperature of 25 degrees centigrade, and loses only 5% of capacity at temperatures as high as 45 degrees centigrade after 1,000 cycles. These characteristics assure the wide applicability of the battery as a power source for products as diverse as hybrid vehicles and mobile phones.

5) Eco-friendly Battery
The new battery can quickly store energy produced by locomotives and automobiles. This speedy and highly effective recharge characteristic of the battery will support CO2 reduction, as the battery can save and re-use energy that was simply wasted before.

You can read more here, seems very interesting..

[MTBikerTim]

Looks sweet. Wonder what the c rating will be and price?

I'm wondering the same. At any rate though, you could just run it with a low draw system and run lots of them in parallel. 1 min charging to 80% is just.. , especially since it only lost 1% capacity over 1000 cycles. This seems like a miracle battery to me!

[MTBikerTim]

It will probably come with the miracle price tag though. We can hope though for high discharge rates.

And your link doesn't work properly.

Oops, fixed the link. Sorry bout that.

[t-maxxracer32]

charges in 1 minute but is only rated at 1c

this battery can be amazing...... or really crappy.

we will see soon!

Whered you see it was only rated at 1c?

They could still be amazing for low draw applications.. Just imagine running for 30 minutes, recharging for 5 minutes, then running again!

[MTBikerTim]

I think he was just saying it would be funny if they could charge faster then they discharge basically. And if the charge rate is the same as the discharge rate the discharge rate will be really good.

[Patrick]

They sound good, but I don't know what's taking them so long to release them. I remember reading about them a couple of years ago. See the date up the top left.