December 13, 2007 Toshiba have stunned the world with their announcement of what’s pretty much the holy grail in Lithium battery technology – the Super Charge ion Battery, which recharges up to 90% of its energy in just five minutes, and has a lifespan of over 10 years. Slow charging has been the key hurdle to public acceptance of battery-electric vehicles as viable distance travelers, so this breakthrough has all sorts of implications for the automotive industry as well as being a very welcome upgrade to a whole host of other portable devices."
http://www.gizmag.com/toshiba-scib-super-charge-lithium-battery/8506/
That is a great idea to merge those 2 technologies .That would make the electric car feasible.
Actually,today with these 3 inventions,then we have solved the energy crises. This 2 new batteries will allow the electric car to be feasible. And with this personal nuclear reactor from Toshiba we have unlimited energy. Now if government just gets out of the way and lets these companies build these things.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1941827/postsToshiba's building a "Micro Nuclear" reactor for your garage? Alright, details are slim, and we really have no idea if Toshiba has any plans whatsoever to sell these nuclear reactors to consumers -- in fact, we hope it doesn't -- but it does seem like the company is well on its way to commercializing the design. Toshiba's Micro Nuclear reactors are designed to power a single apartment building or city block, and measure a mere 20-feet by 6-feet. The 200 kilowatt reactor is fully automatic and fail-safe, and is completely self-sustaining. It uses special liquid lithium-6 reservoirs instead of traditional control rods, and can last up to 40 years, making energy for about 5 cents per kilowatt hour. Toshiba has been testing the reactors since 2005, and hopes to install its first reactor in Japan in 2008, with marketing to Europe and America in 2009. Oh, and we lied: we totally want one of these in our garage
Just the nanowire battery would cause a huge increase in EV demand. Fleet vehicles, commuter cars, lotsa vehicles are stored overnight every night and then used for only a fixed amount of mileage each day. All of these vehicles could be charged at night when other electric usage is low and then used all day.