Your iPhone is more than a smartphone, it’s your friend. It keeps you connected and entertained day in and day out. With this in mind, it’s important that you keep it alive with a charged battery so that it doesn’t let you down in time of need. Ideally, a fully-charged iPhone battery should last from [...]
While it was referred to as “the Duracell treatment”, I’m sure just about any brand of battery will do for what ESPN’s Jemele Hill had in mind when she encouraged fans of the Green Bay Packers to give Brett Favre a battery shower upon his return to Wisconsin. ESPN’s Jemele Hill to Packers Fans – Batteries [...]
Toyota Motor Corp. has reportedly developed a new technology that may dramatically boost the storage capacity of lithium ion batteries, thus opening the door to more practical and efficient electric vehicles. Japan’s Nikkei business newspaper said the new technique eventually would allow lithium ion batteries to store 10 times the energy of current ones. This [...]
We all know that lonely, empty feeling of being without a cell phone. It’s a feeling of disconnection, as if the rest of the world has left us behind and is going on without us. How do we prevent this undesirable feeling from overcoming us? First and foremost, we do so by realizing the most [...]
U.S. automaker General Motors is desperately in need of a turnaround, and it appears they’re banking heavily on lithium-ion batteries to make it happen. The latest evidence of their faith in lithium-ion comes in the form of GM’s recent announcement of it’s plans to open America’s very first commercial automaker-operated lithium-ion battery manufacturing site, one [...]
Ceramatec, the Salt Lake City, UT. based advanced materials and electrochemistry developer, is reportedly creating a new battery that will help off-the-grid solar energy users store energy in an efficient, safe, and sizable way. The new battery is small enough to almost fit in the palm of a hand and it’s storage capabilities are impressive, [...]
Computer manufacturer Lenovo has issued a recall for six of it’s ThinkPad models. Apparently, some of the T60/T61/R60/R61/X60/X61 model batteries are failing to perform as they should, leaving many ThinkPad owners with short capacity batteries or batteries that can’t be charged at all.
As the majority of the world’s auto industry moves toward all-electric and hybrid vehicles powered by lithium-ion batteries, lithium reserves have quickly become a valuable commodity. With China, Russia, and Bolivia holding a majority of these reserves, becoming dependent on these countries for lithium carbonate is a situation everyone else is trying desperately to avoid. [...]
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Griffin International Cos. announced a voluntary recall of the Psyclone Essentials and React Wii(tm) 4-Dock Battery Recharge Stations. According to the CPSC, the battery pack can overheat and pose a burn or fire hazard. There have been six incidents of overheating and two consumers have reported minor burns [...]
Available exclusively for Windows is a new battery assisting program called BatteryCare. The program is designed to make it easy to monitor the status of your laptop’s battery life and gives heaps of helpful information that will help you get more from each charge. And, best of all, the download is free! BatteryCare is an [...]
