Battery Applications

The table below shows the range of applications which use batteries together with
typical battery capacities required by the application. The section on Battery
Types outlines the diverse range of batteries which are available for powering these
applications.

Type

Energy

Applications

100 mWh-2 Wh

Electric watches, calculators, implanted

medical devices (Mostly Primary Cells in
small Button Cellpackages)

2 Wh-100 Wh

Flashlights, toys, power tools, portable radio

and TV, mobile phones, camcorders, lap-top
computers, memory refreshing, instruments,
cordless devices, wireless peripherals,
emergency beacons (Mostly Secondary
Cellssuch as NiCad, NiMH and Lithium
Ion as well as some Alkaline primary cells)

SLI Batteries
(Starting Lighting & Ignition)

100-600 Wh

Cars, trucks, buses, lawn mowers, wheel

chairs, robots (Mostly Lead Acid batteries)

Vehicle Traction Batteries

20 -630 kWh

EVs, HEVs, PHEVs, fork lift trucks, milk

floats, locomotives (NiMH and Lithium)

Stationary Batteries

250 Wh-5 MWh

Emergency power, local energy

storage,remote relay stations,
communication base stations,uninterruptible
power supplies (UPS). (MostlyLead
Acid with Lithium recently making some
inroads)

Military & Aerospace

Wide range

Satellites, munitions, robots, emergency

power, communications (Fuel Cells, Nickel
Hydrogen,Water Activated batteries and

Miniature Batteries

Batteries for Portable

Equipment

other Alternatives)

Special Purpose

3 MWh

Submarines (Mostly Lead Acid batteries)

Load Levelling Batteries

5-100 MWh

Spinning reserve, peak shaving, load

levelling (Various Lead
Acid and Lithium plus Alternatives)