Description: Comprehensive, coherent, and completely up-to-date, this handbook brings you the expertise of 80 of the worlds top experts. Contains a wealth of hands-on knowledge compiled and edited by two pioneering researchers who are top-ranked consultants to the battery industry.
Making vital data and equations instantly accessible for a wide range of applications, this handbook has more authoritative information than any other source on the characteristics, properties, and performance of every major battery type. This edition's four new chapters give you new, fully-detailed information on Lithium Ion and Propulsion and Industrial Nickel-Metal Hydride batteries, and portable fuel cells, including small fuel cells (less than 1000 Watts) which are potentially competitive with battery sytems. Brings you up to speed on today's cutting edge battery technologies, materials and methods. Helps you predict battery performance under all operating conditions. Simplifies the selection of the most suitable batteries for a wide range of applications.