Battery having high rate and high capacity capabilities

A defibrillator, comprising:

• a battery having an electrolyte activating one or more anodes and one or more cathodes, at least one of the one or more cathodes end including fluorinated carbon as a first active material and lithium vanadium oxide represented by Li1+yV3O8, wherein y is greater than 0 and/or less than 0.3, the at least one of the one or more cathodes includes the fluorinated carbon and the lithium vanadium oxide before an initial discharge of the battery;
• one or more capacitors configured to store electrical energy from the battery in an amount sufficient to generate one or more defibrillation shocks;
• and
• a processing unit configured to control the storage of electrical energy in the one or more capacitors and to control the discharge of the electrical energy from the one or more capacitors.

A defibrillator, comprising:

• a battery having an electrolyte activating one or more anodes and one or more cathodes, at least one of the one or more cathodes including fluorinated carbon as a first active material and lithium vanadium oxide iepresented by Li1+yV3O8, wherein y is greater than 0 and/or less than 03, and the at least one of the one or more cathodes excluding silver vanadium oxide before an initial discharge of the battery;
• one or more capacitors configured to store electrical energy from the battery in an amount sufficient to generate one or more defibrillation shocks;
• and
• a processing unit configured to control the storage of electrical energy in the one or more capacitors and to control the discharge of the electrical energy from the one or more capacitors.

A defibrillator, comprising:

• a battery having an electrolyte activating one or more anodes and one or more cathodes, at least one of the one or more cathodes including fluorinated carbon as a first active material and lithium vanadium oxide represented by Li1+yV3O8, wherein y is greater than 0 and/or less than 0.3, and the active materials in the one or more cathodes exclude silver before an initial discharge of the battery;
• one or more capacitors configured to store electrical energy from the battery in an amount sufficient to generate one or more defibrillation shocks;
• and
• a processing unit configured to control the storage of electrical energy in the one or more capacitors and to control the discharge of the electrical energy from the one or more capacitors.