Technical Paper
Advanced Bipolar Lithium Ion Battery
2006-11-07
2006-01-3023
There are many potential equipment platforms both commercial and military that require enabling battery technology with a specific energy greater than 400 watt hours per kilogram. These platforms include electric vehicles, high altitude airships, and electrically powered unmanned aerial vehicles all of which have the potential to significantly affect the United States commercial and military economies. Mobile Energy Products Inc. (MEPI) is developing advanced bipolar lithium ion cell chemistry that has the potential to bring into being batteries that have a specific energy greater than 400 watt hours per kilogram. MEPI is working with the Energy Storage Research Group (ESRG) of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey to develop such a chemistry based on nanocomposite materials. The cell chemistry when incorporated into MEPI bipolar lithium ion technology is expected to yield batteries that can produce power over a wide temperature range at reasonable current rates.