[adrian_b]

This might have a little more chances to be real than most such announcements, because this is not really "new battery tech".

They use the same components that are traditionally used in some of the most popular non-rechargeable lithium batteries.

What they claim is that they have found a special electrode construction and some additives that allow such batteries to be rechargeable.

It remains to be seen if they will ever succeed to make these batteries survive enough recharging cycles to be competitive with the existing lithium-ion rechargeable batteries.

The claim for much larger capacity is due to the fact that the normally non-rechargeable batteries have an electrode entirely of lithium, unlike the current rechargeable batteries which store the lithium in the pores of the electrode, so the quantity of lithium is much less than in the non-rechargeable batteries.

[zamalek]

That's somewhat promising, as manufacturing is why new consumer batteries are always years behind the tech.