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Hot! DeWalt's New Lithium Ion 18v "Nano" Battery


Written by Ben Jackson Saturday, 21 July 2007 var sburl4113 = window.location.href; var sbtitle4113 = document.title;var sbtitle4113=encodeURIComponent("Hot! DeWalt's New Lithium Ion 18v "Nano" Battery"); var sburl4113=decodeURI("http://www.toologics.com/Features/AWFS_2007/Hot!_DeWalt%27s_New_Lithium_Ion_18v_%22Nano%22_Bat tery_20070721234.html"); sburl4113=sburl4113.replace(/amp;/g, "");sburl4113=encodeURIComponent(sburl4113);Although DeWalt didn't officially launch any new products at AWFS, they DID have their new 18v Nano Phosphate Lithium Ion batteries (called the "Nano") on display. Here are a few pictures:
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DeWalt is the sole tool licensee of A123 Nano Phosphate battery technology.

Additionally, a rep confirmed that the new Nano Phosphate Lithium Ion batteries will:

Be backwards compatible with almost every DeWalt 18v tool made since 1997
Require the purchase of a new charger. You can charge older XR and XRP batteries on the new charger, but you cannot charge the Nano battery on an older charger.
Be available sometime in the fall, possibly as soon as October.
Charge in less than one hour.
Last over 2000 charge/discharge cycles We were also informed that DeWalt has a quite a few new products that they are working on that will also launch in the Fall. Although it's not much of surprise, the new cordless drills, drivers, and impacts (and quite possibly every future cordless tool) all have integrated LED worklights.

A few prototypes were on display (which we couldn't get photos of) which are smaller and lighter that the previous generation of DeWalt tools.

This is a very exciting development indeed! We're glad DeWalt is finally catching the 18v lithium-ion wave! l

I'm a retard.

I've been looking at your avatar for a long time now, and up until just now, I thought it was a bad drawing of a fish.

:D

I've got to buy this brand of beer more often!


But yes, Li-ion is the way to go. Beats NiMH or NiCad by lightyears.

"Be backwards compatible with almost every DeWalt 18v tool made since 1997"

now thats good thinking!!!!!!!

The Makita ones charge in 15 minutes, hopefully these do too

fine for home and light duty use. no matter what it's still a black and decker at heart. panasonic cordless tools are nice. heavy duty

panasonic.......now theres the first word when i think quality heavy duty tool........NOT.

This wasnt a "which is better" thread, its a for you DEWALT owners thread. Thanks for posting nothing.

As for the new batteries, this is awesome!! Cant wait to replace a couple of my 3 year old still working batteries with some with more power and longer lasting ability.

Thanks TxDoc!!!!!

actually i said dewalt was ok for light duty use. if you actually use cordless tools in extreme conditions like i do, since i am a pipe fitter and abuse the crap out of my tools in construction, than you would know panasonic professional tools are use by many with great results. i never even said anything bad about the dewalt. i'm sure the new batteries are awesome. all the companies are making leaps and bounds in battery technology. feel free to stop by our shop and pic out a dewalt drill out of the stack of them we no longer use. i even own a dewalt 18volt drill for my home use that i've had for years with no problems other than i need to replace the brushes finally. keep your smart a** coments to yourself. thanks