---
title: "This Ultra-Fast Charging Aluminum Battery is the Future"
description: "Ultra-fast charging, cheap, safe aluminum battery developed at Stanford outperforms Lithium batteries in almost every way."
date: "2015-04-06"
modified: "2015-08-13"
authors:
  - name: "Alex Klokus"
    link: "https://futurism.com/authors/alex-klokus"
url: "https://futurism.com/this-ultra-fast-charging-aluminum-battery-is-the-future"
categories:
  - "Energy"
  - "Science & Energy"
tags:
  - "energy"
---

# This Ultra-Fast Charging Aluminum Battery is the Future

![](<https://futurism.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/battery.jpg>)

- Stanford University scientists have invented the first high-performance aluminum battery that's fast-charging, long-lasting and inexpensive. Researchers say the new technology offers a safe alternative to many commercial batteries in wide use today.
- Battery durability will also receive a major upgrade. Aluminum batteries developed at other laboratories usually died after just 100 charge-discharge cycles. But the Stanford battery was able to withstand more than 7,500 cycles without any loss of capacity. "This was the first time an ultra-fast aluminum-ion battery was constructed with stability over thousands of cycles," the authors wrote.
- In addition to small electronic devices, aluminum batteries could be used to store renewable energy on the electrical grid. Aluminum-ion technology also offers an environmentally friendly alternative to disposable alkaline batteries.

### Author social links  
[LinkedIn](<https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexklokus>)