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Batteries are amazing. Batteries are horrible. Batteries are a necessary evil in today’s world of portable everything. If you’re reading this sentence, even if it’s not on a mobile device, …read more Continue reading When Battery Rebuilds Go Wrong: Understanding BMSs, Spot Welders, and Safety
Californian company Amprius has shipped the first batch of what it claims are the most energy-dense lithium batteries available today. These silicon anode cells hold 73 percent more energy than Tesla’s Model 3 cells by weight, and they take up 37 perce… Continue reading Amprius ships first batch of “world’s highest density” batteries
With lithium-ion batteries serving as the engine room for so much of the modern world, from phones and laptops, to electric cars and planes, every scientific breakthrough that improves their performance is an important one. Some of these come from incr… Continue reading The most creative battery breakthroughs of 2021
There’s a lot of magic in Lithium-ion batteries that we typically take for granted and don’t dig deeper into. Why is the typical full charge voltage 4.2 V and not …read more Continue reading Li-ion Battery Low-Level Intricacies Explained Excellently
Sales of electric vehicles continue to climb, topping three million cars worldwide last year. All these electric cars need batteries, of course, which means demand for rechargeable cells is through …read more Continue reading Ask Hackaday: Why Don’t Automakers Make Their Own EV Batteries?
Raise you’re hand if you’ve ever soldered directly to a battery even though you know better. We’ve all been there. Sometimes we get away with it when we have a …read more Continue reading Gorgeous Battery Welder Hits The Spot
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
Many might be familiar with their smartphones or other electronic devices losing the charge over time, but the lithium-ion batteries that power them actually forego a sizable chunk of their capacity before they even get started. This is caused by impur… Continue reading Inventor of lithium batteries creates a coating to boost their capacity
While electric vehicles certainly are more eco-friendly than their fuel-burning counterparts, their battery packs still aren’t as recyclable as they could be. A new process could help, by more efficiently extracting reusable materials from old lithium-… Continue reading New process promises more efficient recycling of EV batteries
Electric RC aircraft are not known for long flight times, with multirotors usually doing 20-45 minutes, while most fixed wings will struggle to get past two hours. [Matthew Heiskell] blew …read more Continue reading Electric RC Plane Flies For Almost 11 Hours