Supercritical drying of Equation or symbol description not availableV2O5 gels yields amorphous aerogels (ARG) that serve as reversible, high capacity hosts for lithium ion intercalation. We have found that ARG material consists of a highly interconnected solid network that has a surface area up to 450 m2/g and a specific pore volume of 2.3 cm3/g. The material hosts at least Equation or symbol description not available4Li+ per mole of Equation or symbol description not availableV2O5 (ARG) as determined by both galvanostatic intermittent titration (GITT) and chemical lithiation (CL) techniques. The equilibrium voltage‐composition curve is identical for both GITT and CL techniques as well. Equation or symbol description not availableV2O5 (ARG) has a specific energy in excess of 1600 Wh/kg, the highest ever reported for any vanadium oxide host.