US firm to produce bipolar battery

摘要

US company Advanced Battery Concepts (ABC) has designed a bipolar lead-acid battery that bridges the performance gap between lead-acid and lithium-ion batteries. The company has a patent in the USA and has four patents pending in Europe for its bipolar lead-acid battery that uses non-exotic materials in its construction. Don Hobday - V.P. Global Business Development for the company said: "We have developed a lead-acid battery that has significantly higher energy density, more power, requires 45% less lead, is lower cost to manufacture and can be built in any voltage up to 200V.