North America will soon have on market the first full line of portable DC battery chargers from Honda Motors, thanks in large part to Honda’s appointment of Alten Battery Chargers Inc. as its OEM partner on this proposal. Unlike an AC generator paired with a slow plug-in charger, ALTEN Battery Chargers are a fast and [...]
In what many are calling a response to Samsung’s Blue Earth, LG recently unveiled their own version of a solar-powered cellular phone at the 2009 Mobile World Conference in Barcelona, Spain. While LG showed off the solar phone and battery case at the MWC, they weren’t able to release a name on the product, as [...]
According to Sony Corp, 100,000 computer battery packs made by the Japanese electronics maker are being recalled due to a fire hazard. This includes, but is not limited to batteries found in the machines of various lap-top manufacturing giants such as Hewlett-Packard Co and Toshiba Corp. The recall was initiated on Thursday by the U.S. [...]
San Francisco based Pixel Qi recently announced they will soon begin shipping a new class of computer screen, one that is said to increase the battery life of your lap-top by up to 50 percent. By including a technology that absorbs natural light sources into their LCD screens, Pixel Qi is dramatically lessening the amount [...]
The billions of dollars being made available to the battery industry in the $790 billion stimulus plan has United States battery manufacturers feeling energized and optimistic about the opportunities this will create throughout the industry. On top of the $2 billion in grants and additional tax credits set aside specifically for the development of advanced [...]
It didn’t take very long to figure out the new, non-removable battery in Apple’s 17-inch MacBook Pro isn’t quite as non-removable as Apple might like to think. Within days of receiving their new MacBook Pro, the crew over at ifixit got to work and easily succeeded in their mission to remove the battery, while also [...]
The need for new, renewable energy sources has us looking high and low, and in places that many would never even begin to think of. One of the latest energy-harnessing technologies being talked about is the discovery made by a group of MIT undergraduates of a way to recover energy that is lost from vehicle [...]
In what looks to be another case for added motivation to see automobile manufacturers move from acid-lead batteries to lithium-ion, Associated Press reporter Heidi Vogt just released a tragic story of an African town who has seen some of its citizens suffer from lead poisoning. Pets and farm animals were the first to feel the [...]
