Boston-Power’s Sonata Batteries Enhance Performance, Safety

A portable power solutions provider Boston-Power today announced its next-generation Sonata lithium-ion batteries for laptops, enhancing “both performance and safety”.

Sonata’s proprietary safety features include slower chemical kinetics, novel current interrupt devices, new thermal fuses, unique pressure relief vents and safer pack configuration.

It provides laptop users with the industry’s fastest recharge time, “which is approximately half the time required by other batteries”. It is claimed that these batteries are capable of recharging to 80 percent capacity in just 30 minutes.

Additionally, Sonata is the only battery designed to match the lifespan of a notebook computer.

“To date, most users find that they need to buy at least three batteries in the first three years of use of a new notebook computer. Sonata is designed so these users should only need one battery during this same timeframe,” the Boston-Power claims.

According to the press release, Boston-Power is working closely with HP in the testing and validation process of this new technology. The first notebook computers to use Sonata batteries are expected to ship this summer.

The public unveiling of Sonata will take place this Thursday at DEMO 2007.