While popular in consumer applications, the adoption of lithium batteries in low to medium volume industrial applications has been slow, with concerns expressed about a range of factors. Varta Microbattery believes it has solved these problems with the introduction of CellPac LITE, a range of off the shelf battery packs that integrate high density lithium cells, protection circuitry, connections and encapsulation.
Researchers at Graz University of Technology claim to have developed a technology that could double the storage capacity of lithium ion batteries.