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Want an EV With 600 Miles of Range? It’s Coming - Inside Climate News
2024-08-22 by in Inside Climate NewsThe push for solid-state batteries could lead to extra-long battery ranges as soon as 2027.
Tagged under: Electric Cars | Batteries
Group1.ai | Engineered Materials Enabling Potassium-ion Batteries
2024-08-20 (or before) in group1.aiGroup1 is he world's 1st engineered materials company focused on Potassium-ion batteries. Continuing the lineage of innovation from Nobel laureate Prof. JB Goodenough.
Tagged under: Innovation | Batteries
Group1 Unveils First Potassium-ion Battery in 18650 Format
2024-08-01 by in prnewswire.com/PRNewswire/ -- Group1, a leader in advanced battery technology, proudly announces the release of the world's first Potassium-ion battery (KIB) in the...
Tagged under: Innovation | Batteries
California’s power grid is stronger with batteries | Sacramento Bee
2024-07-16 in sacbee.comA combination of new solar energy, batteries, and less extreme heat in Southern California helped evade Flex Alerts or blackouts.
Tagged under: California | Batteries
Battery Recycling Market Size, Growth, Trends Analysis, Segmentation, And Forecast 2024-2032
2024-03-14 (or before) by in menafn.com(MENAFN - IMARC Group)
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Tagged under: Recycling | Batteries
Want to keep your home powered during an outage? Try a big battery that lasts 3 days | CBC News
2024-03-13 (or before) in CBC.ca - Canada's Public BroadcasterNova Scotia Power says it will take the next year to evaluate if it can expand a pilot project that put home-sized electrical storage batteries into 125 households across the province.
Tagged under: Prepping | Batteries
UK government must kick-start the construction of large-scale electricity storage or fail to meet legal binding net zero targets by 2050, warns Royal Society report | Royal Society
2024-03-11 (or before) in The Royal Society‘Large-scale electricity storage’ report examines a wide variety of ways to store surplus wind and solar generated electricity which will be needed when Great Britain’s supply is dominated by volatile wind and solar power.
Tagged under: Batteries | Energy Storage | UK | Renewable Energy | Electricity Grid | Wind Power
Large-scale electricity storage | Royal Society
2024-03-11 (or before) in The Royal SocietyThis policy briefing explores the need for energy storage to underpin renewable energy generation in Great Britain. It assesses various energy storage technologies.
Tagged under: Electricity Grid | Electricity | Batteries | Renewable Energy
World’s largest sand battery set to slash emissions in Finnish town
2024-03-10 (or before) in EuronewsThe battery will be able to store a week’s heat demand in winter - how does it work?
Tagged under: Europe | Energy Storage | Batteries | Wind Power | Innovation
“This is our North Star:” Auto giant backs sodium-ion EV battery technology
2024-01-17 by in The Driven - Australian EV NewsDutch automotive giant Stellantis among several companies to invest in French company Tiamat which is commercialising sodium-ion battery technology.
Tagged under: Batteries | Cars
Long Duration Energy Storage Could Cut Cost of GB Power System by up to £24 Billion
2024-01-13 (or before) in Renewable Energy Magazine, at the heart of clean energy journalismNew analysis by LCP Delta and published within the consultation on 'Designing a policy framework to enable investment in long duration electricity storage' from the Department for En...
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | UK | Energy Storage | Batteries | Electricity
Another big battery wanted to help replace Australia’s biggest coal generator
2023-03-14 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyNSW is launching a new tender – likely for a big battery – focused on the “firming” gap created by the planned retirement of Australia’s biggest coal generator.
Tagged under: Batteries | Coal
This geothermal startup showed its wells can be used like a giant underground battery | MIT Technology Review
2023-03-12 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewTagged under: Batteries | Geothermal Energy
How much lithium does Iran have?
2023-03-10 (or before) in Quartz | Make business betterAt more than 8.5 million tons, the discovery could have enormous geopolitical implications
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Russia | Iran | Finance
Sodium-ion battery gets world-first certification, in new boost for cheaper storage
2023-03-09 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economyChina storage company becomes world’s first to get certification of international safety standards of its sodium ion battery.
Tagged under: Batteries | China
EV transition targets are ‘not achievable’ within current timelines, industry says
2023-03-09 (or before) in eandt.theiet.orgManufacturers have named challenges in adapting to a new battery supply chain, concerns over the investment, shortages of raw materials and lack of grid capacity as barriers to the transition to electric vehicles (EVs).
Tagged under: Batteries | Electric Cars | EVs | Electricity Grid
'Europe's biggest' battery in East Yorkshire opens - Energy Live News
2023-03-03 by in Energy Live NewsThe project has the capacity to store enough energy to power around 300,000 homes in Yorkshire for two hours
Tagged under: Batteries
Breakthrough in Battery Technology: Progress on Fast-Charging Lithium-Metal Batteries
2023-02-09 in SciTechDaily - Science, Space and Technology News 2023In a new Nature Energy paper, engineers report progress toward lithium-metal batteries that charge fast – as fast as an hour. This fast charging is thanks to lithium metal crystals that can be seeded and grown – quickly and uniformly – on a surprising surface. The trick is to use a crystal growing s
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Innovation
4 ways to store renewable energy that don’t involve batteries
2023-01-29 (or before) in The World Economic ForumEnergy storage is increasingly important as the world depends more on renewables. Here are four clever ways we can store renewable energy without batteries.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries | Innovation
Iron-Air Batteries 10 Times Cheaper Than Li-Ion Will Start Mass Production in 2024
2023-01-16 by in autoevolution.comStarted in the labs at MIT, Form Energy is the company that improved a 140-year-old battery technology to revolutionize energy storage. Its iron-air batt...
Tagged under: Batteries
For U.S. Companies, the Race for the New EV Battery Is On
2022-12-29 (or before) in Yale E360Spurred by federal mandates and incentives, U.S. manufacturers are pushing forward with developing new battery technologies for electric vehicles. The holy grail is a battery that is safer, costs less, provides longer driving range, and doesn’t use imported “conflict” minerals.
Tagged under: Batteries | Minerals
Cottingham: Europe's biggest battery storage system switched on - BBC News
2022-11-22 (or before) in The BBCThe facility in Cottingham begins operating four months early to help ease UK winter power fears.
Tagged under: Batteries
E-bike batteries have caused 200 fires in New York: ‘Everyone’s scared’
2022-11-15 in The GuardianDelivery workers grapple with danger after dozens injured in blazes that can spread quickly and suddenly
Tagged under: Batteries
How your phone battery creates striking alien landscapes
2022-11-12 (or before) in BBCThere's a global hunt for lithium to power our phones and electric vehicles. BBC Future explores the distinctive terrain where the stuff is mined.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries
Storing renewable electricity on the grid of the future | by Kit Fitton | Medium
2022-11-10 (or before) in MediumBatteries are going to need some help
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries | Electricity | Electricity Grid
CATL Will Mass Produce Sodium-Ion Batteries in 2023 | NextBigFuture.com
2022-10-28 in NextBigFuture.com Ð Coverage of Disruptive Science and TechnologyContemporary Amperex Technology Co. Ltd. (CATL) plans to start mass production of its sodium-ion batteries in 2023. CATL has setup a large supply chain for
Tagged under: Batteries | Electric Cars | Cars
Electric Vehicles Won’t Save Us
2022-10-18 in The NationA national fleet of battery-powered cars is unlikely to prove sustainable and could have catastrophic consequences globally.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Joe Biden | Cobalt | Electric Cars | Cars
Crab and lobster shells could be used to make renewable batteries
2022-09-01 in The GuardianPrototype designed using chemical in crustacean shells remains 99.7% efficient after about 400 hours
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Shell | Batteries | Sealife
Saudi Arabia’s EV Battery Bets Are a Warning
2022-08-24 (or before) in BloombergApart from China, no country has managed to achieve manufacturing scale. That may be about to change.
Tagged under: Batteries | China | Saudi Arabia
Development of vanadium-based polyanion positive electrode active materials for high-voltage sodium-based batteries - Nature Communications
2022-08-14 (or before) in NatureThe development of high-capacity and high-voltage electrode materials can boost the performance of sodium-based batteries. Here, the authors report the synthesis of a polyanion positive electrode active material that enables high-capacity and high-voltage sodium battery performance.
Tagged under: Batteries
Researchers seem to stumble across an electrolyte for a sodium battery
2022-08-14 (or before) in Ars TechnicaSodium is cheap and plentiful, but its use in batteries brings some challenges.
Tagged under: Batteries
Alsym Energy | Non-Flammable. Non-Toxic. Low-Cost. High Performance.
2022-08-12 (or before) in Alsym Energy | Non-Flammable. Non-Toxic. Low-Cost. High Performance.We're working to deliver performance comparable to lithium-ion batteries at a fraction of the cost and risk—something no other tech can do.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries
Powdered sodium battery design promises a 15% leap in energy density
2022-08-03 in New AtlasWith real uncertainty clouding the world's supply of lithium, alternative battery chemistries will be crucial as we continue our uptake of electric vehicles and mobile devices. One exciting candidate in this space is sodium-ion, and a research team in Russia has developed a novel battery of this…
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Lithium | Batteries | Russia
Redwood Materials To Recycle All Batteries From VW, Audi EVs In USA
2022-07-15 (or before) in InsideEVs | Electric Vehicle News, Reviews, and ReportsThe company headed by Tesla co-founder JB Straubel will work directly with VW Group's 1,000 US dealers to identify end-of-life batteries and materials.
Tagged under: Batteries | USA | Electric Cars | EVs
‘Insane’ lithium price bump threatens EV fix for climate change | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
2022-07-07 (or before) by in Al JazeeraThe price of the metal used in batteries for electric cars has risen six-fold since the start of the year.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Climate Change | Electric Cars | Cars
Green Energy’s Dirty Secret: Its Hunger for African Resources
2022-07-04 (or before) by in Foreign Policy - the Global Magazine of News and IdeasThe scramble for battery metals threatens to replicate one of the most destructive dynamics in global economic history.
Tagged under: Batteries | Congo | China | Minerals | Africa | Colonialism
Exhausted: How We Can Stop Lithium Mining from Depleting Water Resources, Draining Wetlands, and Harming Communities in South America
2022-06-28 (or before) in Natural Resources Defense CouncilMany green technologies, such as electric vehicles and renewable power plants, depend on lithium-ion batteries, which require lithium. Lithium may play a key role in reducing greenhouse gas emissions, but a climate-friendly future cannot come at the expense of destroying...
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Lithium | Batteries | Greenhouse Gases | Wetlands | South America | Water Resources
How a Battery Metals Squeeze Puts EV Future at Risk
2022-06-08 (or before) in BloombergThe world’s epic shift into electric vehicles needs to overcome a major obstacle: how to meet rocketing demand for batteries, the vital component, while cutting the cost to help the cars go mainstream. Factory lines churning out power packs to fuel a clean energy future are being built faster than strained supply chains can keep up. A global rush to lock in stocks of lithium, nickel, cobalt and other key ingredients from a handful of nations has sent prices hurtling higher. There are major conce
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Cobalt | Electric Cars | Cars
How the humble battery can help save the world - BBC Ideas
2022-02-07 (or before) in The BBCTagged under: Batteries
Nissan Teases Teeny, Tiny Micra EV, & A Solid-State Battery Plan, Too
2022-01-31 in Cleantech News Ñ #1 In EV, Solar, Wind, Tesla NewsNissan relaunches a 100% electric version of its Micra subcompact, and a low cost, long range solid-state battery could be in the works, eventually.
Tagged under: Batteries
The Black Forest Holds a Secret to Making Electric Cars Greener
2021-12-15 (or before) in BloombergA new mining process aims to produce battery-grade lithium in Germany without hurting the environment.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Germany | Electric Cars | Cars | Trees
Battery power: five innovations for cleaner, greener electric vehicles
2021-11-26 in The GuardianEVs are seen as key in transition to low-carbon economy, but as their human and environmental costs become clearer, can new tech help?
Tagged under: Batteries | Greenhouse Gases | Electric Cars | EVs | Cars | Innovation
‘Battery arms race’: how China has monopolised the electric vehicle industry
2021-11-25 in The GuardianChinese companies dominate mining, battery and manufacturing sectors, and amid human rights concerns, Europe and the US are struggling to keep pace
Tagged under: Batteries | Congo | Africa | Electric Cars | Cars
Rio Tinto’s past casts a shadow over Serbia’s hopes of a lithium revolution
2021-11-19 in The GuardianPeople in the Jadar valley fear environmental catastrophe as Europe presses for self-sufficiency in battery technology
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Electric Cars | Cars
Cars Are Going Electric. What Happens to the Used Batteries?
2021-11-03 (or before) in WIRED MagazineTagged under: Batteries | Electric Cars | Cars
Indigenous tribes tried to block a car battery mine. But the courts stood in the way
2021-10-15 in The GuardianLegal setbacks in efforts to block a new lithium mine in Nevada’s Thacker Pass highlight how federal courts routinely fail to protect sacred lands
Tagged under: Activism | Lithium | Batteries
Sun Cable: World’s biggest solar and battery project expands again, gets Indonesia approval
2021-09-23 in Renew Economy | News and analysis for the clean energy economySun Cable expands to a solar project of up to 20GW and up to 42GWh of battery storage, as it gains approval from Indonesia for a sub-sea cable.
Tagged under: Batteries | Solar Energy | Indonesia
Vanadium redox flow battery for utility-scale applications, microgrids – pv magazine International
2021-07-25 (or before) in pv magazine InternationalA unit of Largo Resources is launching a new vanadium redox flow battery for utility-scale storage projects, microgrids, renewable energy integration, grid smoothing, and backup power. The battery will feature a modular architecture, based on 1 MW "building blocks" and 2 MWh blocks of storage capacity.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries | Electricity Grid
World's cheapest energy storage will be an iron-air battery, says Jeff Bezos-backed start-up | Recharge
2021-07-23 in Recharge | Latest renewable energy newsSecretive US start-up Form Energy finally reveals the chemistry of its revolutionary long-duration battery — which it says will store energy at one tenth the co
Tagged under: Batteries
Only batteries have the power to save British carmaking
2021-07-03 in The GuardianNissan’s ‘gigafactory’ in Sunderland must be the first of many sites if the UK is to compete in the electric vehicle era
Tagged under: Batteries | Greenhouse Gases | Electric Cars | Cars
Scientists have cost-effectively harvested lithium from seawater
2021-06-04 in ElectrekResearchers have figured out how to extract lithium, an essential part of EV batteries, from seawater in an economical way.
Tagged under: Economics | Lithium | Batteries
The next-generation cobalt-free EV battery is just around the corner | LMC AUTOMOTIVE
2021-05-27 in LMC AUTOMOTIVE - Automotive ForecastingÊSales Production PowertrainInnovations in the development of electric vehicle batteries may mean that cobalt is no longer a neccesity
Tagged under: Batteries | Cobalt | Innovation
Caldera - The Heat Battery Company
2021-05-17 (or before) in Caldera Heat Batteries - Low Carbon HeatWe are the makers of Warmstone™, the world’s most efficient and technologically advanced zero carbon heat battery for household use.
Tagged under: Batteries
Developer Of Aluminum-Ion Battery Claims It Charges 60 Times Faster Than Lithium-Ion, Offering EV Range Breakthrough
2021-05-14 (or before) by in ForbesThe graphene aluminum-ion battery cells from the Brisbane-based Graphene Manufacturing Group (GMG) are claimed to charge up to 60 times faster than the best lithium-ion cells and hold more energy.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Innovation
In Boost for Renewables, Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is on the Rise
2021-05-04 (or before) in Yale E360Driven by technological advances, facilities are being built with storage systems that can hold enough renewable energy to power hundreds of thousands of homes. The advent of “big battery” technology addresses a key challenge for green energy — the intermittency of wind and solar.
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries | Solar Energy | Wind Power | Electricity Grid
Alternatives to Cobalt, the Blood Diamond of Batteries
2021-04-22 (or before) in WIRED MagazineTagged under: Batteries | Cobalt
New high-capacity sodium-ion could replace lithium in rechargeable batteries - University of Birmingham
2021-04-22 (or before) in University of Birmingham - A leading global universityUniversity of Birmingham scientists are paving the way to swap the lithium in lithium-ion batteries with sodium, according to research publi
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries
Did QuantumScape Just Solve a 40-Year-Old Battery Problem?
2021-04-14 (or before) in WIRED MagazineTagged under: Batteries
This super-energy-dense battery could nearly double the range of electric vehicles
2021-04-14 (or before) in MIT Technology ReviewBut some observers aren’t convinced that QuantumScape’s lithium-metal batteries will power cars and trucks on the road as soon as the company claims.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Electric Cars | Cars
Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars
2021-03-01 in The GuardianAnalysis by transport group says battery electric vehicles are superior to their petrol and diesel counterparts
Tagged under: Batteries | Greenhouse Gases | Electric Cars | Fossil Fuels | Cars
Powering up: UK hills could be used as energy 'batteries'
2021-02-08 in The GuardianEngineers explore using gentle slopes rather than steep dams or mountains to store electricity
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries | Electricity
Electric car batteries with five-minute charging times produced
2021-01-19 in The GuardianExclusive: first factory production means recharging could soon be as fast as filling up petrol or diesel vehicles
Tagged under: Batteries | Greenhouse Gases | Electric Cars | Cars
Thermally modulated lithium iron phosphate batteries for mass-market electric vehicles - Nature Energy
2021-01-19 (or before) in NatureTernary layered oxides dominate the current automobile batteries but suffer from material scarcity and operational safety. Here the authors report that, when operating at around 60 °C, a low-cost lithium iron phosphate-based battery exhibits ultra-safe, fast rechargeable and long-lasting properties.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries
Kirill Klip: The rEVolution Feeding Frenzy and the Shadow Beneath: Lithium-Ion Batteries and the Next Leap Forward.
2020-12-27 (or before) in Kirill KlipTagged under: Lithium | Batteries
How to hybridise batteries and supercapacitors | The Economist
2020-11-06 (or before) in The Economist MagazineThe offspring will give electric cars more range and power
Tagged under: Batteries | Electric Cars | Cars
Powerhouses: nanotechnology turns bricks into batteries
2020-08-11 in The GuardianResearch could pave way for cheap supercapacitor storage of renewable energy
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries
Electric vehicles: the future we made and the problem of unmaking it
2020-06-24 (or before) in Oxford AcademicAbstract. The uptake of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), subject to bottlenecks, seems to have reached a tipping point in the UK and this mirrors a general tre
Tagged under: Batteries | Tipping Points
California Utility Is Set to Build Giant 770-MW Energy Battery Storage
2020-05-18 (or before) in Engineering News-Record | ENRSouthern California Edison project cost was not disclosed but system is set to be one of the largest procured in the U.S. to store more clean power.
Tagged under: Batteries | California
To Understand the Medical Supply Shortage, It Helps to Know How the U.S. Lost the Lithium Ion Battery to China
2020-04-21 (or before) by in Pro PublicaThe failed U.S. effort to dominate global production of the lithium ion battery — which is key to energy independence, automobile innovation and more — holds lessons for leaders grappling with the U.S.’s reliance on China for emergency medical supplies.
Tagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Innovation
Samsung Presents Groundbreaking All-Solid-State Battery Technology to ‘Nature Energy’
2020-03-10 (or before) in Samsung Global Newsroom - All the latest news, key facts and inspiring stories about Samsung Electronics.On March 9 in London, researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan (SRJ) presented a study on
Tagged under: Batteries | Japan
Is GM's New EV Battery a Tesla Killer?
2020-03-08 (or before) in Popular MechanicsIt goes 400 miles on a charge—and it's flexible in an important new way.
Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla
Waste firm reveals batteries sparked six fires in its depots last year
2020-01-27 (or before) in Brighton ArgusA WASTE firm has revealed batteries caused six fires in its depots last year.
Tagged under: Batteries
Electric cars could charge in 10 minutes with a new kind of battery
2020-01-06 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Electric Cars | Cars | Electricity
A new battery could keep your phone charged for five days
2020-01-06 (or before) by in New ScientistTagged under: Lithium | Batteries | Electric Cars | EVs
The Underestimated Potential of Battery Electric Vehicles to Reduce Emissions - ScienceDirect
2019-11-25 (or before) in ScienceDirect.comTagged under: Batteries
SRP plans to install Arizona's biggest battery for massive solar plant
2019-11-15 (or before) in azcentral.comTagged under: Batteries | Solar Energy | Rivers
Electric car future may depend on deep sea mining - BBC News
2019-11-14 (or before) in BBCDemand is soaring for the metal cobalt, an essential ingredient in batteries and abundant on the seabed.
Tagged under: Batteries | Cobalt
Electric cars could be charged in 10 minutes in future, finds research
2019-10-30 in The GuardianScientists are developing rapid-charging batteries that could be in use in a couple of years
Tagged under: Batteries | Electric Cars | Cars
UK firm announces plans for first 'liquid to gas' cryogenic battery
2019-10-21 in The GuardianHighview Power claims device will be Europe’s largest energy storage project
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries | Fossil Fuels
THE DESTRUCTIVE MYTH OF GREEN ENERGY: IF YOU WANT ‘RENEWABLE ENERGY’ GET READY TO DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT
2019-08-07 in The International Chronicles - Interactive Forum of political culture“Green Energy” advocates dream of powering society entirely with wind and solar farms combined with massive batteries. Realizing this dream would require the biggest expansion in mining…
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Solar Energy | Batteries | Wind Power
HMRC pushes steep VAT increase for new solar-battery systems
2019-06-24 in The GuardianTreasury proposes rise from 5% to 20%, while the tax on coal will stay at lower rate
Tagged under: Renewable Energy | Batteries | Solar Energy | Coal
Toyota, Subaru, Suzuki, and Mazda to Throw Their Combined 16 Million Might Behind BEVs
2019-06-11 (or before) by in The Drive - Automotive News, Car Reviews and Car Tech | The DriveLong list of battery-electric products lined-up. Solid-state battery to be launched next year. Nagging doubts about profitability.
Tagged under: Batteries
Patent Suggests Tesla Is On Cusp Of Battery Chemistry Breakthrough
2019-06-04 (or before) in InsideEVs | Electric Vehicle News, Reviews, and ReportsTesla's battery expert Jeff Dahn has submitted a new patent for battery cell chemistry that will lead to faster charging, longer life, and lower cost.
Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla | Innovation
Tesla manager warns of global shortage of battery minerals in near future
2019-05-03 in Computing - The UK's leading source for the analysis of business technologySome minerals cannot be easily obtained, due to underinvestment in the mining sector
Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla | Minerals
Tesla Model S battery degradation data
2015-01-24 in Steinbuchhttps://lecturis.nl/en/product/forward/ Want to read about the acceleration we are seeing in our society in the area of mobility? Read our new book 'Forward'. Updated June 9, 2020. Today, Tesla Motors published their 2019 Impact report. The report contains very interesting data about the environmental impact of their products. In the report, for the first time, there…
Tagged under: Batteries | Tesla
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