New Solid-State Battery Tech Promises 500-Mile Range EV
One of the latest entrants in the heated race for higher-performance battery pack technology is a new type of solid-state battery with high energy density, half the size of a Continue Reading
A Smaller, More Powerful Battery Begins to Charge Devices
Companies are getting closer to replacing the battery that has led the consumer-electronics revolution over the past 30 years. Solid-state batteries promise to be more compact and powerful than the Continue Reading
Tesla Plans To Ditch Cobalt In New Batteries
Reuters recently reported on Tesla’s announcement that it is in advanced talks to use batteries from China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd (CATL) that contain no cobalt specifically for use Continue Reading
UCR researchers find commercial fast-charging damages EV batteries, propose new internal-resistance-based technique
Commercial fast-charging stations subject electric car batteries to high temperatures and high resistance that can cause them to crack, leak, and lose their storage capacity, according to researchers at the Continue Reading
Fortum, BASF, and Nornickel sign cooperation agreement on Li-ion battery recycling
Fortum, BASF, and Nornickel have signed a letter of intent to plan a Li-ion battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland, serving the electric vehicle market. This would enable a successful Continue Reading
Tesla Battery Day can mean doomsday for legacy carmakers shifting to electric
Tesla is expected to hold its Battery Day in April as Elon Musk announced during the company’s Q4 earnings call. The chief executive said the company has a “compelling story” Continue Reading
Panasonic to exit solar production at Tesla’s New York plant as partnership frays
Panasonic Corp said it would exit solar cell production at Tesla Inc’s New York plant, the latest sign of strain in a partnership where Panasonic’s status as the U.S. electric Continue Reading
Two Abundant Elements That Could Create A Superbattery
For decades, scientists have been on the prowl for advanced battery materials with features such as superior energy density or those that confer extra-long battery life leading to such futuristic Continue Reading
Two Abundant Elements That Could Create A Superbattery
For decades, scientists have been on the prowl for advanced battery materials with features such as superior energy density or those that confer extra-long battery life leading to such futuristic Continue Reading
The Two Most Important Factors In The EV Boom
The ranks of batteries aiming to challenge the dominant lithium ion technology have been swelling rapidly in the past few years are researchers and businesses seek a better and cheaper Continue Reading
Tesla’s choice of cheaper lithium batteries hits cobalt miners
Shares in Chinese cobalt miners dropped on Wednesday following news that Tesla had chosen to produce its Model 3 electric car in the country with lower cost batteries that do Continue Reading
Can we quit cobalt batteries fast enough to make electric cars viable?
Most of the world’s cobalt is mined in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Electric cars are getting cheaper and their sales are on the rise, but their future success Continue Reading
Study finds cobalt supply can meet demand for EVs and electronics batteries through 2030
A study by a team from MIT, with colleagues from Alfred University, UC Berkeley, and RIT, has found that supplies of cobalt—a critical material in some battery chemistries—is adequate in Continue Reading
New machine learning method from Stanford, with Toyota researchers, could accelerate battery development for EVs
At every stage of the battery development process, new technologies must be tested for months or even years to determine how long they will last. Now, a team led by Continue Reading
Exclusive: Tesla in talks to use CATL’s cobalt-free batteries in China-made cars – sources
Tesla is in advanced stages of talks to use batteries from CATL ( 300750.SZ ) that contain no cobalt – one of the most expensive metals in electric vehicle (EV) Continue Reading
Can The U.S. Compete With China In The Energy Storage Race?
Last year Oilprice reported that the energy storage industry was about to explode in China. We wrote that “China is set to become the single biggest energy storage market in Continue Reading
Three Innovations To Upend The Energy Storage Market
The battery craze isn’t really about batteries at all. It’s about something far grander than a battery, which is simply a conduit to a much bigger story. Batteries are like Continue Reading
Shell signs multi-year offtake deal with 100 MW UK battery project
Shell Energy Europe Limited (SEEL) has agreed a multi-year power offtake deal with the 100 MW Minety battery storage project in Wiltshire, southwest England, Shell said Monday. Receive daily email Continue Reading
Germany’s biggest EV battery plant takes shape with Eur2 bln investment plan
Plans for Germany’s biggest EV battery plant at Kaiserslautern have advanced after car maker Opel pledged to invest Eur2 billion ($2.2 billion), the energy ministry said Friday. Opel, part of Continue Reading
JenaBatteries and BASF cooperate in the development of electrolyte for redox flow battery
JenaBatteries GmbH and BASF are cooperating in the production of an electrolyte for a battery technology that is particularly suitable for stationary storage of electricity from renewable energy sources and Continue Reading
Novel Li-metal electrode design could lead to more powerful solid-state batteries (updated)
Researchers at MIT and their colleagues are proposing a new design for electrodes that, based on the long-sought goal of using pure lithium metal as the anode, could lead to Continue Reading
Hydro-Québec to commercialize patents co-invented by Goodenough and Braga for electrolyte for solid-state Li-ion batteries
Hydro-Québec and The University of Texas at Austin signed an agreement for the transfer to Hydro-Québec of patents co-invented by Dr. John B. Goodenough, a professor at The University of Continue Reading
Can Seawater Batteries Replace Lithium?
Lithium and cobalt: the two components of a rechargeable battery that have spurred a research and development rush may eventually meet their match in the future, in a simple element Continue Reading
U.S. Utilities Rush To Procure Energy Storage Capacity
A growing number of U.S. utilities plan to add energy storage to their resource plans this decade, as declining renewable energy costs and investor and public pressure to curb emissions Continue Reading
IBM Reveals “Staggering” New Battery Tech, Withholds Technical Details
IBM lifted the veil this week on a new battery for EVs, consumer devices, and electric grid storage that it says could be built from minerals and compounds found in Continue Reading
OXIS Energy Li-S cells close to achieving 500Wh/kg; targeting 600Wh/kg with solid-state Li-S technology
OXIS Energy has successfully tested its Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery cell prototypes at 471Wh/kg and is confident of achieving 500Wh/kg in the next 12 months. Consistently shipping cells at 400Wh/kg to Continue Reading
The Hottest Energy Investment Niche Of 2020
What a difference a decade can make. Ten years ago, Li-ion batteries were mostly confined to phones and personal computers; fast-forward to the present and they now power our cars, Continue Reading
Enevate announces new 4th-generation Si-dominant battery technology; optimized for high volume production
Enevate, a developer of advanced silicon-dominant Li-ion battery technology capable of extreme fast charging for electric vehicles (EVs), announced its new fourth-generation technology optimized for high volume commercialization and manufacturing Continue Reading
The U.S. Aims For Energy Storage Dominance
The U.S. Department of Energy is launching a program to speed up the development and use of next-generation energy storage solutions and technologies, aiming to position the United States for Continue Reading
2020: The Decade For Energy Storage
The developers of the lithium-ion battery won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2019, in recognition of a scientific achievement that has helped power our mobile phones, laptops, and electric vehicles Continue Reading
Self-Healing Lithium Batteries Are On The Horizon
Engineers at the University of Illinois have developed an electrolyte that could help manufacturers produce recyclable, self-healing commercial batteries. In a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Continue Reading
Electricity storage set for bright 2020 despite ‘headwind of policy uncertainty’
Utility-scale storage capacity seen nearly tripling in 2020 Storage driven by state programs at risk from MOPRs Washington — There is little doubt that 2020 is going to be a Continue Reading
‘Tipping point’ for UK energy storage may be here as planning pipeline swells
Storage plans jump to 10,500 MW in the past 12 months. Current UK storage capacity totals 700 MW Developers are charging into the market for grid-scale battery storage in the Continue Reading
BMW orders more than 10 billion euros’ worth of battery cells
German carmaker BMW on Thursday said it had ordered more than 10 billion euros’ ($11.07 billion) worth of battery cells from Chinese battery cell maker Contemporary Amperex Technology Co (CATL) Continue Reading
Tesla set to make world’s biggest battery even bigger
The world’s biggest lithium-ion battery is about to get even bigger after its Australian operators decided to expand in a bid to stabilise the nation’s fragile electricity grid. French renewables company Continue Reading
Could Heat Storage Be The Future Of Energy?
Now that it has become abundantly clear energy storage is the most important factor that can ensure the long-term success of renewable energy, the field has been brimming with potential Continue Reading
ANL researchers report photo-excitation can speed up Li-ion charging by factor of two
Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have reported that a new photo-excitation mechanism can speed up the charging of lithium-ion batteries by a factor of Continue Reading
Are Concrete Blocks the Next Batteries?
Energy storage is an increasingly large problem with renewable energy . Energy Vault wants to solve it by storing extra energy as potential energy in concrete blocks. The company recently Continue Reading
Solid-electrolyte-based liquid Li-S and Li-Se batteries can deliver up to 500 Wh/kg
Researchers at Zhengzhou University, Tsinghua University and Stanford University have developed a solid-electrolyte-based liquid Li-S and Li-Se (SELL-S and SELL-Se, respectively) battery system with the potential to deliver energy densities Continue Reading
Tech Breakthrough: Is This The End Of Lithium-Ion Batteries? | OilPrice.com
The soon-to-be $92.2 billion battery market just got a huge boost. Scientists have just created the world’s first long-cycle Li-Carbon Dioxide battery, and in a market-shredding first: it’s fully rechargeable. The hunt for advanced Continue Reading
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