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Firefly Energy is a Peoria, Illinois based battery technology Laptop Battery company developing a portfolioLaptop Battery of next generation lead acid battery technologies. Firefly’s first innovation, the carbon foam based battery technology, can deliver a unique combination of high performance, extremely low weight and low cost, all in a battery which utilizes the best aspects of lead acid chemistry while overcoming the corrosive drawbacks of this samedell laptop battery chemistry. This product technology delivers to battery markets a performance associated with advanced battery chemistries (Nickel Metal Hydride and Lithium), but for one fifth the Latitude D800 cost, and can be both manufactured as well as recycled within the existing lead acid battery industry’s vast infrastructure.Initial availability of the battery will be in the summer of 2008, with full production of the Oasis battery scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2008. Through itsInspiron 8200 development program, Firefly Energy is responding to trucking related regulations soon taking effect in the State of California and across the nation. On January 1, 2008, diesel trucks operating in California face a five minute Inspiron 8500 idling limit. Traditional batteries will now be challenged by the severe strain of trying to support a trucker’s various hotel loads (air conditioning, TVs, etc.) which were previously powered by diesel engine idling. The result will be premature battery failure, since traditional lead acid batteriesInspiron 8000 cannot easily withstand repeated deep discharging.

Firefly Energy’s Oasis battery will have a sealed valve regulated design. The primary characteristic of the first Firefly Energy lead acid battery is the inclusion of a high surface 8N544 area, noncorrodible and light weight carbon foam material. Firefly Energy’s 3D carbon foam unleashes the high power potential of lead acidInspiron 8100 chemistry which was impossible to achieve in the past. This technology not only reduces the lead content making the batteries smaller and lighter, but additionally enables faster, deeper and more reliable discharges and recharges. This significantly extends the battery’s life, makes it more environmentally friendly, and less expensive than lithium and nickel Inspiron 8600 battery chemistries. . . .

When tested in cold weather extremes at minus 20°C, the batteriesInspiron 4000 were capable of delivering above 65 percent of their rated “room temperature” capacity compared to 20 percent or less for standard Group 31 batteries. This can help minimize alternator damage incurred while attempting coldweather engine starts when Inspiron 6400 batteries are low.