Battery testing takes patience (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Battery testing takes patience

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At SINTEF's laboratories in Trondheim, batteries are charged and discharged, again and again and again. "From the time you have a new concept until it reaches the market, it easily takes ten years. You have to go through several years of testing and verification," says senior researcher Fride Vullum-Bruer at SINTEF Energy AS.

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