Lithium ion is one that most people know.

锂离子是大多数人都知道的一种。

The rechargeable lithium ion ones, right?

可充电的锂子电池, 对吗?

Lithium ion batteries don't usually explode, at least not in the traditional sense.

锂离子电池通常不会爆炸，至少在传统意义上不会。

Lithium ion batteries are much smarter than older nickel cadmium or nickel metal hydride rechargeable batteries.

锂离子电池比旧的镍镉或镍金属氢化物可充电电池智能得多。

A conventional lithium ion battery uses a liquid electrolyte.

传统的锂电池使用的是液体电解质。

Those batteries contain liquid, lithium ions plus a soft carbon known as graphite.

这些电池含有液态锂离子和一种叫做石墨的软碳。

This means the lithium ions travel from the cathode back to the anode.

这意味着锂离子从正极回到负极。

Titanium disulfide is a layered material that lithium ions can move into and out of easily.

二硫化钛是一种分层材料，锂原子可以自由进出。

With lithium ion batteries if they run completely out of juice, they never work again.

如果锂离子电池完全没电了，它们就再也不能工作了。

Making a battery that can store more energy requires a larger cathode containing more lithium ions.

制造能储存更多电量的电池要求更大的负极以包含更多的锂离子。

The vehicles will not run on the same kind of lithium ion batteries currently used in electric cars.

该汽车不会采用当今其他电动汽车使用的锂电池。

It's all thanks to this rechargeable battery, a lithium ion battery that powers the car's electric motor.

这都要归功于这种可充电电池——一种为汽车电动机提供动力的锂离子电池。

And more and more rechargeable lithium ion batteries are finding their way into landfills and other unsafe disposal sites.

还有越来越多的锂离子二次电池将被送往垃圾填埋场和其他不安全的垃圾处理场。

If you take batteries we used to use a lot of cobalt in our original lithium ion high energy batteries.

如果你拿电池来说，我们过去在最初的锂离子高能电池中使用了大量的钴。

And that's why it's not the best idea to put lithium ion batteries in your checked baggage on an airplane.

这就是为什么在飞机上把锂离子电池放在托运行李里不是个好主意。

And right now the energy storage capacity of the bricks is still pretty low-about 1 percent of a lithium ion battery.

目前，砖块的储能能力仍然相当低，约为锂离子电池的1%。

The California researchers are studying lithium ion batteries, but in the next few years plan to begin testing new sodium batteries.

加州的研究人员正在研究锂离子电池，但在未来几年计划开始测试新型钠电池。

They developed an experimental power supply, called the UrJar, consisting of reusable lithium ion cells salvaged from three-year-old laptop battery packs.

他们开发了一种名为UrJar的实验性质的电源，它是由用时3年的笔记本电脑回收的可重复使用锂离子电池组成。

Whereas lithium ion batteries are fantastic sprinters you would never take a sprinter and ask that sprinter to run a marathon.

锂离子电池是出色的短跑选手，但你永远不会要求短跑运动员去参加马拉松。

Sodium ions (sodium atoms with an electron missing, which makes them positively charged) are, however, five times the size of lithium ions.

然而，钠离子—在缺少一个电子的前提下，钠原子带正电—是锂离子的五倍大小。