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How to Increase the Life of Your Lithium-Ion Batteries

  • July 28, 2004

Battery research is focusing heavily on lithium chemistries, so much so that one could presume that all portable devices will be powered with lithium-ion batteries in the future. In many ways, lithium-ion is superior to nickel and lead-based chemistries, however, aging of lithium-ion is an issue that is often ignored. Lithium-based batteries have a lifetime of two to three years, and the clock starts ticking as soon as the battery comes off the manufacturing line. Eventually, the cell...