Cool Battery Technology

A123Systems has created battery technology delivers up to 10X longer life, 5X power gains and dramatically faster charge time over conventional high power battery technology. Imagine a notebook battery that lasts 40 hours and only takes five minutes to charge. This has huge implications for all kinds of equipment.

http://www.a123systems.com/html/news/articles/051102_pr.html

It also has huge implications for our armed forces. Imagine what this could mean to soldiers in the field. To work with young, incubator companies, the government has set up a group that invests in technology startups that might benefit the government. You can read about it here.

http://www.onpoint.us/index.shtml