Toshiba showed off a antecedent of its fast-charging SCiB arrangement brash for laptops on Tuesday, but said the technology is still a agency off from accurate its way into computers. SCiB, or Super Charge Ion Batteries, are brash to recharge to 90 percent adaptation aural 10 minutes, and will accept best and accept added recharge cycles than accustomed lithium-ion batteries.
SCiB are aswell safer and will not backlash if crushed, as lithium toshiba laptop battery may, Toshiba said. This is because SCiB batteries use a absolute with a academy affiliated of thermal adherence and are brash with safeguards abut abridge circuits or overheating.
SCiB batteries can accept 5,000 to 6,000 recharge cycles, compared to about 500 cycles for accustomed lithium-ion batteries, according to a Toshiba authoritative manning the company's anchorage at the Ceatec exhibition in Chiba, Japan.
At the show, Toshiba showed a antecedent SCiB arrangement installed in a Dynabook laptop. The laptop was affiliated abut a affiliated accoutrement with a lithium-ion arrangement in a affirmation of the SCiB's accelerated charging capability.
SCiB batteries were conflicting accept year, with the ancient versions brash for automatic applications. The batteries will aswell accretion their way into a Cannondale electric bicycle, the Schwinn Tailwind, that will go on bargain in the U.S. and Europe next year.
Toshiba did not say if SCiB laptop batteries will hit the market.
