One by one, battery manufacturers and developers who were awarded portions of the $2.4 billion in grant money under President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act appear to be experiencing success through partnerships with automakers nationwide.
The latest benefactor of the Obama administration’s investment into energy storage to land a significant contract with a major automaker [...]
Have a group of eco-concious students at the University of Kansas created a serious competitor for Chevrolet’s battery-powered Volt? Not likely….but what they have done is use their ingenuity and creativity to make an ol’ classic car much more environmentally friendly.
The team of mechanical engineering students, who go by the name of ‘Ecohawks’, and their [...]
“I have no doubt that every lithium-ion battery manufacturer with an operating factory and a quality product will have more customer demand than it can possibly satisfy. I also expect the emergence of more robust lithium-ion batteries to create entirely new classes of demand that we don’t even recognize today.” -John Petersen, former director of [...]
While we understand there are times when it takes some creativity in order to get your battery working like it should; sticking a giant C-clamp on a lead acid battery isn’t exactly the smartest way to go about it.
Here we have evidence of what happens when creativity and batteries
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, [...]
With summer temperatures reaching their peaks and then some, record heatwaves throughout the country are wreaking havoc on thousands of automobile batteries.
With states from Washington and California to Texas and Oklahoma experiencing scorching, above normal temperatures for the hottest part of the year, calls for heat-related issues with automobile batteries are becoming an all too common [...]
Whether it be by lithium-ion, lead acid, or any other chemistry; the fact remains that battery-powered vehicles are more in demand now than ever before. As companies throughout the world race to develop and manufacture the most efficient, eco-friendly batteries for electric vehicles; the success of several China-based battery manufacturers have the country projected to [...]
In what could be seen as a crucial step toward making a revolutionary vision become a reality, Better Place unveiled it’s battery switch platform today in Yokohama, Japan. The eventual goal of Better Place is to create worldwide networks of battery swapping stations where drivers can
With Earth Day falling upon us this Wednesday, there’s certainly no shortage of opportunities to help out the environment. While it would be fantastic if we treated every day as if it were Earth Day, the fact that so many positive projects are taking place for the betterment of the earth this week is truly [...]
“We believe our batteries can compete with the more expensive and exotic battery chemistries. In the end, our relatively low cost, when compared to the battery chemistries that appear to dominate today’s headlines, along with our ease of integration into existing manufacturing lines, will be telling advantages when novelty wears thin and cost-consciousness and practicality [...]
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