The UltraBattery is a purpose-built battery technology that provided an economically viable alternative to Nickel Metal Hydrate (NMH) batteries used in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) in 2013. It could also be used in other high C-rate pulse power applications such as grid and alternative energy load levelling. Frank Lev charts its history.
Invented by Dr. Lan Lam of CSIRO in Australia, with the assistance of Furukawa Battery, the UltraBattery is a valve-regulated lead-acid battery (VRLA) modified to include a supercapacitor . . .
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