Tesla, one of the major leaders in the EV movement, has recently announced that they will be teaming with Brussels-based Umicore to create a much needed lithium ion battery recycling program throughout Europe. Tesla says the batteries in their EVs should last somewhere between 7-10 years or about 160,000 kilometers under normal use. Those are [...]
Count Mercedes-Benz among the automobile manufacturers quickly realizing that batteries play an extremely pivotal role for the future of the auto industry. The world’s second-largest maker of luxury cars has announced that over the course of 2010 and 2011, it will be spending $2.8 billion on both battery technology and green technologies. “It shows that [...]
You never know what you’ll find next at Yanko… Designers Yeon Kyeong Hwang & Mieong Ho Kang are working on a concept for a AA battery that would be powered by a completely renewable energy source- You. The concept behind the wind-up AA batteries isn’t all that different from the old wind-up toys you used [...]
Whether you’re single, married, or somewhere in between; all of us at The Battery Times and Atbatt.com would like to wish you a very happy Valentine’s Day.
Tesla, one of the major leaders in the EV movement, has recently announced that they will be teaming with Brussels-based Umicore to create a much needed lithium ion battery recycling program throughout Europe. Tesla says the batteries in their EVs should last somewhere between 7-10 years or about 160,000 kilometers under normal use. Those are [...]
Whether it be with cell phones, smartphones, or gaming devices; stories like this are becoming all too familiar… A young Italian boy was recently so deeply enthralled with the game he had going on his Sony PSP that he forgot to do something very crucial: Look where he was going. Unfortunately for him, he was [...]
With RIM eagerly prepping for a first quarter release of the new BlackBerry PlayBook (many expect it to ship the U.S. beginning in March), many are wondering aloud if RIM’s battery life will be comparable to the 10-hr battery life of it’s main competitor, Apple’s uber-popular iPad. To that query, senior product lead Ryan Bidan [...]
When Tim Cook/Steve Jobs recently confirmed that Apple is indeed working on an iPad 2, speculation regarding how they would improve on the groundbreaking iPad was rampant. One of the main things prospective iPad 2 owners want to know is whether or not the same impressive battery life enjoyed by its predecessor will accompany the [...]
Batteries whose electrodes are made of pig bones? Now that’s a strange, yet potentially very beneficial development in the industry! Scientists in Beijing have apparently developed a way to create lithium-sulfur batteries that are essentially powered by pig bones. The bones are baked and broken down, and then are used to create electrodes for the [...]
We hope everyone has a great Martin Luther King Jr. day-
