Battery knowledge · Charging and discharging
Qi
The Wireless Power Consortium’s standard for inductive charging of small devices through flat coils a few millimetres apart. The transmitter checks for a valid receiver, and for stray metal by foreign-object detection, before sending power; early profiles delivered 5–15 W, and Qi2, which adds magnetic alignment, reached 25 W in its 2.2 release of 2025.
- Also called
- Qi wireless charging, Qi2, Wireless Power Consortium, WPC
Example
Charging and discharging: an example situation
The same CC–CV law can operate overnight or during a short depot stop.
Read Qi alongside Consumer electronics in this context. Phones, laptops, wearables and tools: the first mass market for lithium-ion and still the one that pays for the highest energy density. It favours pouch cells with LCO or high-nickel positives and silicon-blended negatives.
Use in Lemonergy
Separate regulation from availability.
This is a reference concept. No executable Lemonergy block has been verified for this term.
References & further reading
Further reading on this topic
These sources provide broader context; they are not presented as citations for every statement in this entry.
- Lithium-ion battery fast charging: A review
Anna Tomaszewska et al. · eTransportation · 2019
Topic background · CC-CV and alternative charging protocols, transport limitations, degradation and thermal implications; results depend on cell and test conditions. Software behavior is documented separately in Lemonergy block references.