What Makes Electric Vehicle Fires So Difficult To Extinguish? [Video]
Electric vehicles don’t catch fire often, but when they do, things get spicy. How do these fires start? And why are they so hard to…
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Aging EV Car Batteries Given New Life to Power Up Electric Grid
When aging vehicle batteries lack the juice to power your car anymore, they may still hold energy. Yet it’s tough to find new uses for…
Surpassing All Existing Designs – Researchers Develop High-Voltage Microbattery With Exceptional Energy and Power Density
A persistent technological challenge has been the difficulty in scaling down the electrochemical performance of large-format batteries to smaller, microscale power sources, hindering their ability…
Breakthrough in Battery Technology: Progress on Fast-Charging Lithium-Metal Batteries
In a new Nature Energy paper, engineers report progress toward lithium-metal batteries that charge fast – as fast as an hour. This fast charging is…
Stanford Breakthrough Paves Way Next-Generation Lithium Metal Batteries That Charge Very Quickly
New lithium metal batteries with solid electrolytes are lightweight, inflammable, pack a lot of energy, and can be recharged very quickly, but they have been…
300% More Capacity: New Battery Technology Could Significantly Lower Energy Storage Costs
A new battery has been developed that boasts four times the capacity of lithium batteries, and at a more affordable cost. An international team of…
MIT Discovery Could Unlock a Safer and Lighter Lithium Battery
Solid-state lithium batteries are impacted by the growth of branchlike metallic filaments. A recent study delves into the formation of these filaments and provides a…
New Cambridge Research Could Improve the Performance of EV Batteries
Irregular lithium ion movement could be hindering electric battery performance. Researchers have discovered that the performance and capacity of next-generation battery materials may be hampered…
Next-Generation Electrolytes for High Energy Density Lithium Metal Batteries
Findings hold potential to greatly enhance energy density of lithium batteries. A new mechanism to stabilize the lithium metal electrode and electrolyte in lithium metal…
Battery Tech Breakthrough: 10-Minute Charge Time Paves Way for Mass Adoption of Affordable Electric Car
Scientists develop a new technique that charges EV batteries in just 10 minutes. A design breakthrough has enabled a 10-minute charge time for a typical…
A Hidden Flaw – Unlocking Better Batteries for Electric Vehicles
Fixing a hidden flaw might lead to improved batteries for electric cars. When compared to traditional lithium-ion batteries, solid-state batteries provide quicker charging, higher range, and…
A New, Disposable Paper Battery Has Been Developed
The battery is water-activated and could be applied to a broad range of single-use electronic devices. A proof-of-concept study published in the journal Scientific Reports outlines a…
Extending EV Driving Range With Diamond Quantum Sensors
High-accuracy electric vehicle battery monitoring with diamond quantum sensors for driving range extension toward carbon neutrality. The popularity of electric vehicles (EVs) as an environmentally…
A New Concept for Low-Cost Batteries – Made From Inexpensive, Abundant Materials
An aluminum-sulfur battery, made from inexpensive, abundant materials, could provide low-cost backup storage for renewable energy sources. As ever larger installations of wind and solar…
New AI-Powered App Could Boost Smartphone Battery Life by 30%
New cutting-edge AI technology. A cutting-edge AI invention will be disclosed to technology giants, with the potential to increase smartphone battery life by 30% and…
Turning Buildings Into Batteries To Cheaply Improve Power Quality
Scientists propose converting tall buildings into batteries In order to ensure that the supply and demand of electricity are appropriately balanced, energy storage technologies are…
MIT Professor Wins European Inventor Award for Liquid Metal Batteries
MIT professor Donald Sadoway’s work could enable long-term storage of renewable energy. For his work on liquid metal batteries that could enable the long-term storage…
Cleaner, Greener Batteries – Smashing the Limits of Power Storage
Thanks to the boom in renewables, these days the limiting factor of the energy revolution is not power supply as much as power storage. Cleaner,…
