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Battery Applications
The table below shows the range of applications which use batteries together with typical battery capacities required by the application. The section on Battery Types outlines the diverse range of batteries which are available for powering these applications.
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Type |
Energy |
Applications |
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Miniature Batteries |
100 mWh-2 Wh |
Electric watches, calculators, implanted medical devices (Mostly primary cells) |
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Batteries for Portable Equipment |
2 Wh-100 Wh |
Flashlights, toys, power tools, portable radio and TV, mobile phones, camcorders, lap-top computers, memory refreshing, instruments, cordless devices, wireless peripherals, emergency beacons
(Mostly secondary cells) |
| SLI Batteries
(Starting Lighting & Ignition) |
100-600 Wh |
Cars, trucks, buses, lawn mowers, wheel chairs, robots (Mostly Lead Acid batteries) |
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Vehicle Traction Batteries |
20 -630 kWh |
EVs, HEVs, PHEVs, fork lift trucks, milk floats, locomotives
(NiMH and Lithium) |
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Stationary Batteries |
250 Wh-5 MWh |
Emergency power, local energy storage,remote relay stations, communication base stations, uninterruptible power supplies (UPS). |
| Military & Aerospace |
Wide range |
Satellites, munitions, robots, emergency power, communications |
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Special purpose |
3 MWh |
Submarines
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Load Levelling Batteries |
5-100 MWh |
Spinning reserve, peak shaving, load levelling
(Various Lead Acid and Lithium plus Alternatives) |
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