Batteries for Electric Cars, Homes and More

Lithium is relatively scarce and mostly refined in China. Sodium is neither | Leaders (2023)

A battery supply chain that excludes China looks impossible. The outcome will be determined in Asia, where most battery supply chains are based. Th... (2023)

China is far ahead of the rest of the world in the development of batteries that use sodium, which are starting to compete with ubiquitous lithium ... (2023)

Pump up the voltage! | Science & technology (2021)

To transition towards low-carbon energy systems we need low-cost energy storage. Battery costs have been falling quickly. (2021)

I’ll explain why solar, batteries, and other green energy technologies are a big deal, not just technologically but also economically. —- “ E... (2021)

Reserves of cobalt and nickel used in electric-vehicle cells will not meet future demand. Refocus research to find new electrodes based on common e... (2018)

“Once again it is threatening to cause trouble, this time in the growing market for batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), each of which uses about... (2018)

Volkswagen AG secured 20 billion euros ($25 billion) in battery supplies to underpin an aggressive push into electric cars in the coming years, ram... (2018)

The key to overtaking Tesla by 2020? Lots of government help for EVs. (2018)

Tender by major US utility puts the cost of wind plus battery storage and solar plus battery storage below the cost of existing coal plants. It ind... (2018)

Many startups have made claims about successful lithium-metal batteries. But Pellion is the first to get one to the commercial phase. (2018)

Over the last three decades, engineers and researchers in South Korea, China, Japan, the United States, and Europe have scrambled to develop safe, ... (2018)

By 2023, the world's most valued startup aims to make small aircraft rides an affordable option for daily commuters. (2018)

Detractors say the total number of fully electric cars sold in the world are still a small fraction of the total. But that hides some startling tre... (2018)

Rather than have drones waste energy carrying their own power, LakeDiamond wants to charge them by firing lasers through diamonds at their solar ce... (2018)

At the end of November 2012, Atul Kapadia and Sujeet Kumar hosted the staff of their startup company for a holiday lunch of Mexican food at a Palo ... (2018)

What a time to own the world’s most valuable cobalt mine, and to have to fight to keep it. (2018)

Solid-state technology promises to be cheaper and charge faster than anything on the road today. But no one is close to figuring it out. (2019)

CBC News: The National Published on Dec 12, 2018 Renewables are growing, but even if they could some day replace fossil fuels, there's a problem:... (2019)

Chile is outpacing Bolivia in extracting the important metal. (2019)

Batteries with silicon anodes promise to make devices last more than 20 percent longer on a single charge. (2020)

Learn how to make your own battery with my book DIY Lithium Batteries: http://amzn.to/2jbxvzS or check out my second book - The Ultimate DIY Ebike ... (2020)

Temporarily increasing the temperature of lithium-ion batteries during charging made it possible to charge them quickly without negative side effects. (2019)

QuantumScape’s major breakthrough was finding a flexible ceramic material that can simultaneously act as a solid electrolyte and an effective separ... (2020)

The long read: The race is on to find a steady source of lithium, a key component in rechargeable electric car batteries. But while the EU focuses ... (2020)