A company named EEStor is claiming that it is close to commercially manufacturing a battery that will last 10 times longer than standard electrochemical batteries. If fact the company’s goal is to completely replace standard batteries anywhere they are currently found from cell phones to cars.

EEStor is claiming specifically that their new battery will store ten times more power and cost half as much as current lead-acid batteries. Lead-acid batteries are currently used in most automobiles. EEStor also claims it batteries will operate in conditions ranging from -4 below 0 to almost 150 degrees above zero. Not quite good enough for much of the northern United States in winter, but good enough for the southern parts of the country.

The company claims they have produced a battery capacitor hybrid that will outperform most known battery types, including lithium-ion, without any of the toxic byproducts of tradition batteries. The battery is a composition of barium-titanate powders that allows for ultra dense, cheap and rapidly chargeable power.

The batteries could have major implications on the development of electric cars, server farms and even power storage for utility companies.

The battery hybrid is actually one part supercapacitor and one part battery. According to Wikipedia, a supercapacitor is “an electrochemical capacitor that has an unusually high energy density when compared to common capacitors. They are of particular interest in automotive applications for hybrid vehicles and as supplementary storage for battery electric vehicles.”

The application of the supercapacitor (ultracapacitor) in the fairly new electric and hybrid automobile market could drastically change the outlook for electric cars. EEstor plans to ship its first product to Feel Good Cars, a Toronto based electric car manufacturer, for use in its ZENN electric cars.