U.S. Looks To Boost Energy Storage By 525% By 2025
240 percent: this is the increase in battery storage capacity added in the United States during the third quarter of this year, compared with the second quarter. 240 percent is Continue Reading
DOE releases Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap; 44% reduction in manufactured cost for 300-mile EV pack by 2030
The US Department of Energy (DOE) released the Energy Storage Grand Challenge Roadmap , the Department’s first comprehensive energy storage strategy. Announced in January 2020 by US Secretary of Energy Continue Reading
Bremen orders five Mercedes-Benz eCitaro buses with solid-state batteries
Bremen’s public transport provider Bremer Straßenbahn AG (BSAG) has ordered five new Mercedes-Benz eCitaro electric buses equipped with solid-state batteries. Delivery of the locally emission-free eCitaro buses will take place Continue Reading
ORNL researchers develop new class of cobalt-free cathodes with enhanced energy density for next-gen Li-ion batteries: NFA
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) researchers have developed a new family of cobalt-free cathodes with the potential to replace the cobalt-based cathodes typically found in today’s lithium-ion batteries that power Continue Reading
This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Battery
The lithium-ion battery that billions of people carry daily in their mobile phones is a Nobel Prize-winning scientific achievement. We’ve been living in the age of the lithium-ion battery ever Continue Reading
Old Coal Mines Can Win a Second Life as Green Energy Hotspots – Bloomberg
Australia is studying plans to transform a disused underground coal mine into a pumped hydro facility, part of a wider effort to reuse retiring fossil fuel sites for renewable energy Continue Reading
Solid Power now producing large form factor 22-layer 20 Ah solid-state cells, pathway to full automotive performance compliance
Solid Power, a developer of all solid-state batteries for electric vehicles, announced that its Louisville, Colo. facility is producing 20 Ah multi-layer all solid-state lithium metal batteries on the company’s Continue Reading
Could This Cathode Breakthrough Make Batteries Cheaper?
More energy- and cost-efficient batteries will be key to accelerating the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) and increasing the share of renewable power generation as many countries pledge to make Continue Reading
Hydro-Québec launches EVLO subsidiary specializing in energy storage systems
Hydro-Québec has launched EVLO Energy Storage Inc. ( EVLO ), a subsidiary that designs, sells, and operates safe, efficient and sustainable energy storage systems. These storage systems are intended mainly Continue Reading
Britain Bets Big On Battery Storage
The UK Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has approved the construction of the biggest battery storage project in the UK, and one of the largest such projects Continue Reading