Rayovac started development of its hybrid power pack

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The Million Dollar Wearable Power Prize is offered by the DOD in aneffort to accelerate technology development that can reduce theweight burden of portable power to the soldier.
" We have developed many battery chemistries over Rayovac's 102year history," said Bill Bushong, Corporate Manager of LithiumBattery Technology. " Our latest soldier power pack draws from thebreadth and depth of our knowledge and understanding of high powerbatteries. This Lithium (Li - CFx) soldier power pack is our mostpowerful battery pack to date."
Rayovac started development of its hybrid power pack in December of2007. The company stated that the advanced hybrid technology usedin this pack provides very high power with extremely low weight ina safe, portable configuration. The pack is fueled by Li-CFxbatteries, which have been made by Rayovac since 1981.
" Our soldier power pack was designed with manufacturability inmind," Rayovac Power Team Leader, Greg Davidson, said. " No matterthe results of the contest, our testing has demonstrated that theArmy's objective of providing light weight power to the soldier isachievable with a battery. Tests of our soldier pack have alreadyexceeded the capacity and weight requirements of the contest."
Battery powered devices are essential equipment on today'ssophisticated battlefield. Modern soldiers, once dependent onfirepower, are now more dependent upon technologies, includingbattery power, to support the myriad technological devices used inwarfare and peacekeeping missions today. Devices such as GlobalPositioning Systems, night vision goggles, radio communicationsdevices and weapons sites all depend on portable battery power.Rayovac has a history of supporting the troops with powering theirever-advancing technology, having provided batteries to the USmilitary since 1917.
The results of the Department of Defense Competition will beannounced on October 4th.
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