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Conventional batteries have anodes and cathodes, but a new design from the University of Chicago and the University of California San Diego lacks an anode. While this has been done …read more Continue reading New Battery Has no Anode
While certain dystopian visions of the future have humans power the grid for AIs, Microsoft and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) set a machine learning system on the path of …read more Continue reading AI on the Hunt for Better Batteries
Toyota is going through a bit of a Kodak moment right now, being that like the film giant they absolutely blundered the adoption of a revolutionary technology. In Kodak’s case …read more Continue reading Toyota Makes Grand Promises on Battery Tech
Turn the clock back a couple of decades, and the only time the average person would have given much thought to batteries was when the power would go out, and …read more Continue reading Battery Engineering Hack Chat Gets Charged Up
We’re used to some pretty small batteries in miniaturized electronics, thanks to the manufacture of lithium-polymer pouch cells. But they’re still pretty big, and they’re hardly the most stable power …read more Continue reading New Part Day: The Smallest Batteries You Have Ever Seen
Electric vehicles are slowly but surely snatching market share from their combustion-engined forbearers. However, range and charging speed remain major sticking points for customers, and are a prime selling point …read more Continue reading The State of Play In Solid State Batteries
Solid state batteries have long been promised to us as the solution to our energy storage needs. Theoretically capable of greater storage densities than existing lithium-ion and lithium-polymer cells, while …read more Continue reading Murata To Deliver Solid State Batteries to Market In the Fall
The idea of a tritium power cell is pretty straightforward: stick enough of the tiny glowing tubes to a photovoltaic panel and your DIY “nuclear battery” will generate energy for …read more Continue reading Tetris Handheld Powered By Tritium Cell, Eventually
Plenty of development is ongoing in the world of lithium batteries for use in electric vehicles. Automakers are scrapping for every little percentage gain to add a few miles of …read more Continue reading BMW Pushing Hard For Solid-State Battery Tech; Plans Demo By 2025
Affordable solid-state batteries large enough for cell phones and drones have been promised for a long time but seem to always be a few years away from production. In this case, Taiwan based Prologium sent [GreatScott] samples of their Lithium Ceramic batteries (LCBs) to test, and even though they’re not yet commercial products, who are we to refuse a peek at what they’ve been up to? They sent him two types, flexible ones (FLCBs) and higher capacity stiff ones (PLCBs).
The FLCBs were rated at 100 mAh and just 2 C, both small values but still useful for wearables, especially …read more