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Bill Gates-backed startup Antora Energy is preparing to roll out a containerized, modular heat battery, designed to store renewable energy at the lowest possible cost – then release it efficiently as electricity or industrial process heat.Continue Read… Continue reading Ultra-hot carbon batteries promise super-cheap heat and energy storage
The Chinese company launched what it calls the “world’s first 4C superfast charging LFP battery,” the Shenxing, at its 2023 product launch event. With a total range over 700 km (435 miles), it’s also designed for exceptional performance in freezing con… Continue reading CATL claims its superfast EV battery charges at 400 km per 10 minutes
RMIT engineers say they’ve tripled the energy density of cheap, rechargeable, recyclable proton flow batteries, which can now challenge commercially available lithium-ion batteries for capacity with a specific energy density of 245 Wh/kg.Continue Readi… Continue reading Cheap proton batteries compete with lithium on energy density
Back in May, Ample revealed that it had managed to get its swap station to change out an electric vehicle’s battery in five minutes. Now the company has partnered with Mitsubishi Fuso to bring its battery swapping technology to electric trucking.Contin… Continue reading Ample and Mitsubishi to bring battery swap tech to electric trucking
The current generation of Stromer ebikes squeezes between 75 and 160 miles (120 and 260 km) of electric-assist range out of batteries that take between 3.7 and 7 hours to charge charge. But the Swiss manufacturer is already hard at work on a solid-stat… Continue reading Stromer solid-state ebike battery could drop charge time below 20 mins
In the fast-moving world of battery research, scientists are constantly on the lookout for innovative materials with the right properties to help improve energy storage. Meanwhile, batteries are in greater …read more Continue reading Crab Shells Massively Improve Zinc-Ion Batteries
It’s often the case that technologies developed for racing vehicles trickle down to the wider automotive market. With an endurance race in its sights, a team of more than 30 students at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands has d… Continue reading Student team breaks the 4-minute barrier for EV fast-charging
Gates- and Bezos-backed startup Form Energy is one of the most exciting companies in the grid-level renewable energy storage space, with a multi-day iron-air battery system just 10% the cost of lithium. A 10-MW/1-GWh demo system has now been approved.C… Continue reading Super-cheap gigawatt-scale rust battery greenlit for Minnesota
Promises, promises. The prospect of an electric car that can hook up, recharge and get back on the highway in 10 minutes or less has been previewed, teased and explored for years now, including by some pretty big names. But charging times out on the st… Continue reading This reimagined electric Lotus Elise promises 6-minute charging
Tesla’s 4680 cells, for comparison, measure somewhere between 244-296 Wh/kg. So the extreme-density cells recently tested in Beijing represent a huge leap forward from the status quo – even if they’re solely focused on maximizing a single metric.Contin… Continue reading Chinese scientists push lithium batteries up to a record 711 Wh/kg