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China leads the world in terms of renewable energy resources like solar power. And not just by a small margin either, making over twice as much solar power as the next highest country, the USA. Where do you store any excess solar energy for use when th… Continue reading New grid battery packs record energy density into a shipping container
Battery management is a tedious but necessary problem that becomes more of a hassle with lithium-ion technology. As we’re all very aware, such batteries need a bit of care to …read more Continue reading Hardware Reuse: The PMG001 Integrated Power Management Module
“Please say it wasn’t a regex, please say it wasn’t a regex; aww, crap, it was a regex!” That seems to be the conclusion now that Crowdstrike has released a …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 11, 2024
Lithium is a finite resource, and the more we lock inside rechargeable batteries, the less we have to use. A new speedy method to free the element from such sources could be a game changer in terms of the material’s availability.Continue ReadingCategor… Continue reading Microwave technique recovers 87% of batteries’ lithium in 15 minutes
The AI-BMS-on-chip “unlocks” an additional 10% capacity from a battery and extends the battery’s life by as much as 25%. It does this by monitoring the battery’s State of Health (SoH) and State of Charge (SoC) with a much higher degree of accuracy than… Continue reading AI-controlled batteries unlock 10% more capacity and 25% longer life
CATL made headlines around the globe last August when it presented the Shenxing battery, an LFP pack capable of adding 400 kilometers (249 miles) of range in a mere 10 minutes at the charger. Not a year later, and that pack’s powering actual cars. This… Continue reading CATL’s 1,000-km LFP EV battery super-charges at 1 km/sec
For as much capacity lithium-ion batteries have, their useful lifespan is generally measured in the hundreds of cycles. This degradation is caused by the electrodes themselves degrading, including the graphite …read more Continue reading Why Pulse Current Charging Lithium-Ion Batteries Extends Their Useful Lifespan
Last summer, I was hanging out with a friend from Netherlands for a week, and in the middle of that week, we decided to go on a 20 km bike …read more Continue reading Lithium-Ion Batteries Power Your Devboards Easily
High-density lithium batteries hold vast amounts of energy – and when they drop their guts, they can do so in absolutely spectacular destructive fashion. So researchers have built fire extinguishing capabilities right into the cells themselves.Continue… Continue reading Self-extinguishing lithium battery puts out its own fires
It never fails … you go to use a device that should be fully charged, but its battery has gone flat over time. Such may soon no longer be the case, however, if battery manufacturers simply start using a different type of adhesive tape.Continue ReadingC… Continue reading A simple switch of tape could keep batteries from self-discharging