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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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,…