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Capacity Not Chemistry

Q: Will a LiPo battery give my car more run time than a NiMH battery? A battery’s run time in your car is determined by its capacity, not its chemistry. Most of the time, the biggest number printed on a battery is its capacity: “5000,” “6500,” etc. Look closely and you’ll usually see “mAh” after the number, which stands for “milliamp hours.” The bigger the number, the greater the capacity of the battery, and the...
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