“Solar Cell Flow Battery” Shows High Efficiency
While many utilities and solar farm developers are rushing to connect solar capacity to large batteries, a research team is taking a different approach by making the solar [...]
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Will Your Car’s Body be Your Battery?
In the same way that the technology industry is looking at energy harvesting through advanced textiles for people, a research team in Sweden is believes it can store energy [...]
A Pressing Matter: Densified Wood Stronger Than Steel
We often think of wood as a natural resource that may be chopped for kindling or hammered together for construction. However, engineers at the University of Maryland [...]
Fisker Files Battery Patent: 500 Mile Range, 1-Minute Charge
Filing a patent isn’t the same as having a finished product on hand, but if the Fisker car battery patent application is any indiciation, they may find themselves in [...]
An EV for the City: Swappable Batteries Expand Range of Possibilities
The concept: plug a modular battery system into a light car, then network it all to give urban fleets non-stop range and opportunity. Not all EV start-ups start out building [...]
A Glass Act: Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor Introduces Fast-Charging, Noncombustible Batteries
It’s reassuring to see that that significant technology breakthroughs don’t always come from the young technology whiz crowd. A team of engineers led by [...]
Aluminum Battery Provides Ultrafast Storage
Labs in the US and abroad are fired up about finding alternatives to lithium ion batteries for energy storage at the grid level. From more stable flow batteries using [...]
Are Lithium Ion Batteries a Gamble?
Lithium-ion batteries have brought us a long way, and with the introduction of Tesla’s electric vehicles and its home energy storage products, lithium-ion is on its way to [...]
Speeding Energy Storage to the Grid: Going Slow to Go Fast
Flow batteries seem to be the best solution to fill the short-term energy storage gap at grid scale, but despite a prodigious amount of development, the industry as a whole [...]
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