Notebook makers pushing to standardize prismatic li-ion batteries

Posted on Friday, July 13 2012 @ 22:03 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
DigiTimes reports prismatic lithium-ion batteries are poised to become the third-largest notebook battery standard:
Currently, the notebook industry mainly adopts 18650 cylindrical batteries for traditional notebook models, while ultrabooks and tablet PCs mostly adopt customized LIBs that are small in size, but are not removable from the devices, to allow ultrabooks and tablet PCs to feature even thinner sizes.

However, since prismatic LIBs are rather cheap, while also lightweight, once the battery become standardized and are designed to be removable, the sources expect the penetration of prismatic LIBs in the battery market will start rising in 2013 and become the third-largest notebook battery standard.


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