Flow Batteries For Fast Electric Car Charging
New batteries could make recharging EVs much faster.Electric vehicles can take hours to recharge, making cross-country road trips a challenge. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical...
View ArticleA Battery-Ultracapacitor Hybrid
A device for power tools may also help regenerative braking.By combining the chemistries of ultracapacitors and lithium-ion batteries, a company called Ioxus has created a hybrid energy-storage device...
View ArticleVolt's Battery Capacity Could Double
GM licenses technology that could also make the batteries much cheaper.GM has tipped its hand about the type of battery materials it aims to use in the next generation of the Chevrolet Volt and other...
View ArticleStartup Boasts Better Lithium Batteries
A new cathode design could result in batteries that can store double the amount possible with current electric car batteries.A California company called Envia Systems is developing a battery that...
View ArticleBatteries that Recharge in Seconds
A new process could let your laptop and cell phone recharge a hundred times faster than they do now.A new way of making battery electrodes based on nanostructured metal foams has been used to make a...
View ArticleAdvanced Electrodes for Better Li-Ion Batteries
Nanotube anodes could lead to higher-energy, faster-charging batteries for cell phones and notebooks.Lithium-ion batteries could last longer if their electrodes stored more charge. Korean researchers...
View ArticleMuch-Needed Perspective on the GM Volt Battery Fires
250,000 vehicles catch fire on America’s roads every year, and exactly none of them are electric.
View ArticleA123 Systems Reports More Bad News
The company is losing money fast. It hoped to raise money to stay afloat.The financial numbers are pointing in the wrong direction for lithium-ion battery maker A123 Systems, a company founded 10 years...
View ArticleLithium-Ion Battery
Inside the power source for portable electronics and electric vehicles.Lithium-ion batteries, because they’re lightweight and compact, have enabled smart phones to get slimmer and electric vehicles...
View ArticleCable-Shaped Batteries with a Twist
LG Chem’s flexible, knottable batteries could be integrated into textiles and headphone cords.Korean battery maker LG Chem is developing “cable batteries” that could be integrated into headphones to...
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