BP Teams Up With Tesla In Energy Storage Project
One of the world’s biggest oil industry supermajors has teamed up with the global leader in electric cars in a new business venture and pilot project. British Petroleum (BP) has Continue Reading
The Supersized Future Of Energy Storage
In the battery industry, records seem set to be broken almost as soon as they are hit. This is what may be about to happen with the largest battery storage Continue Reading
Your Future Home Might Be Powered By Car Batteries
New tech may turn your electric car into public power storage Half of all new cars sold will be EVs by 2040, estimates say When Damien Maguire moved to the Continue Reading
NUS-led research team develops cost-effective technique for mass production of high-quality graphene; 50x less solvent
A research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed an economical and industrially viable strategy to produce graphene. The new technique addresses the long-standing challenge of Continue Reading
Is This The Best Alternative To Lithium-Ion Batteries?
What would you think about a battery that sports five times the capacity of the average lithium-ion one? And then what if this batter was cheaper, and even more environmentally Continue Reading
Will Lithium-Air Batteries Ever Become Viable?
Lithium-air batteries sound too good to be true—using the oxygen available in the air to produce electricity. Theoretically, they could become serious competitors to lithium-ion batteries; but so far, a Continue Reading
MIT-led team devises new approach to designing solid ion conductors; implications for high-energy solid-state batteries
Researchers led by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), BMW Group, and Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a fundamentally new approach to alter ion mobility Continue Reading
Rolls-Royce partners with Superdielectrics to explore potential of new high energy capacity supercapacitor technology
Rolls-Royce has signed a collaboration agreement with UK-based technology start-up Superdielectrics Ltd to explore the potential of using novel hydrophilic polymers to create next-generation high-energy storage technology. Superdielectrics Ltd is Continue Reading
The Latest Challenger To Lithium-Ion Batteries
The race for cheaper, better batteries has never been more intense and more interesting. The latest contender comes from Australia, from RMIT University. It is a hybrid between a chemical Continue Reading
Renault-Nissan aims for next generation battery car in 2025
The Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance is working to produce an electric car that uses solid-state batteries as early as 2025, in a move that puts it amid the frontrunners in the global Continue Reading