Ms Rosalie Louey sits at a laboratory desk wearing her safety goggles and lab coat and uses a variety of instruments to prepare components for the UltraBattery.

Ms Rosalie Louey prepares key capacitor electrodes for the UltraBattery.

UltraBattery: no ordinary battery

CSIRO's UltraBattery invention is a hybrid energy storage device made up of a supercapacitor integrated with a lead–acid battery cell.

  • 6 May 2010 | Updated 22 March 2013
  1. Overview
  2. Technology
  3. Applications
  4. Commercialisation
  5. Latest news
  6. The UltraBattery team

Overview

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The UltraBattery is a remarkable CSIRO invention that has turned the conventional lead-acid battery – a 150 year-old energy-storage system – into a dynamic technology.

The unique design combines two everyday energy-storage devices: the lead-acid battery (battery found in cars) and a supercapacitor (device that powers camera flashes). The result is an economical, super fast-charging battery with long-life power.

The UltraBattery is about 70 per cent cheaper to make than batteries with comparable performance and can be made using existing manufacturing facilities.

With a wealth of applications possible, the UltraBattery is ideally suited for hybrid-electric and conventional vehicles, renewable energy storage, remote area power supply, emergency power backup and forklift trucks.