A Million-Mile Electric Car Battery? Musk Wasn’t Lying
When earlier this year Tesla’s Elon Musk said the company could soon have batteries lasting for over one million miles, many probably took it as yet another grand promise with Continue Reading
The Energy Storage Industry Is Exploding
China is set to become the single biggest energy storage market in the Asia Pacific region by 2024, according to new reporting by British data analysis and consultancy group Wood Continue Reading
Battery Breakthrough Solves Major Electric Car Problem
It’s no secret that batteries are the most expensive part of an electric vehicle. As such, this is the root of the industry’s problem and a roadblock to making larger Continue Reading
Building The World’s Largest Battery
When Tesla announced a 100 MW/129 MWh battery project in Australia, it was hailed as the world’s largest energy storage facility. Then Abu Dhabi upped the ante by announcing the Continue Reading
Brookhaven team develops energy-dense sulfur-based organic cathode material for Li-ion batteries
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory have designed a new, sulfur-based organic cathode material for lithium batteries. The material is more energy-dense, cost-effective, and environmentally Continue Reading
Renewable energy: Australia bets on a ‘water battery’
It took 100,000 construction workers a quarter of a century to bore through the Snowy Mountains to build Australia’s largest hydroelectric scheme. The vast nation-building project links nine power stations Continue Reading
Cornell team suggests engineered bacteria could address current limitations of energy storage technologies
Raising the penetration of renewable —an intermittent—sources of energy into the grid will require large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval. However, at present, no existing technology provides such storage Continue Reading
U.S. Energy Storage Capacity Set To Double This Year
U.S. grid-connected energy storage capacity this year is set for a twofold increase to 712 MW from 376 MW last year. What’s more, between 2019 and 2024, storage capacity will Continue Reading
GlobalData: Global battery energy storage market to grow by 7% to reach $13.13B by 2023
The global battery energy storage market will to grow to $13.13 billion by 2023, according to a new forecast by GlobalData. Asia-Pacific (APAC) and EMEA will be the dominant markets Continue Reading
Tesla expects global shortage of electric vehicle battery minerals
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Tesla Inc expects global shortages of nickel, copper and other electric-vehicle battery minerals in the near future due to underinvestment in the mining sector, the company’s head Continue Reading