Honor left a surprise at the end of the press conference at the MWC trade fair. New silicon-carbon battery it goes into production smartphones without delay and could soon replace conventional li-ion batteries in other models as well. The biggest advantage is higher energy density – Honor states that 12.8% more energy can be stored in the same volume.
This is not the dream revolutionary leap. But when we consider that li-ion batteries reached today’s capacity after 30 years of development, while silicon-carbon is just at the beginning…
The Honor Magic5 Pro featured on the same press release has a 5,100 mAh graphite cathode battery in Europe. A silicon-carbon battery with the same dimensions would have +12.8%, i.e. 5,450 mAh, and this is exactly the value Honor gives for the Chinese variant of the phone. Other sources also confirm that the Chinese market will serve as a real test.
Honor announced the existence of a silicon-carbon battery. He immediately installed it in the Chinese version of the Honor Magic5 Pro phone
We can be pleased that Honor has its technology up to date, and that it is not just presenting us with laboratory tests. Experience from the past says that it is only a matter of time before the novelty reaches the global market. Of course, if it works.
At the presentation, we also saw a graph, according to which the new type of battery does exceptionally well even when discharged, when the voltage drops to 3.5 V. At that moment, the silicone-carbon battery has 240% more capacity than commonly used accumulators.
Honor also showed a silicon-carbon battery at MWC:
