Battery News – Page 18

March 25, 2013

Lux predict Solid-state Batteries superior to Li-Air, Li-S by 2030

Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries have established themselves as a leader in energy and power densities for mobile applications. These batteries account for a market worth more than $10 billion, and...

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March 13, 2013

Toyota to commercialize solid-state batteries by 2020

Toyota aims to commercialize solid-state batteries around 2020 and lithium air batteries several years later, as successors to today's lithium ion batteries. The solid-state batteries will be three...

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March 2, 2013

Google: 90% of Cars Could be EVs and Hybrids By 2030

Electric, plug-in and hybrid vehicles could garner a collective 90 percent market share by 2030, and grid-scale electricity storage could actually increase emissions in the short term, according to...

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February 25, 2013

Scientists increase lithium-sulfur battery lifetime by 10x

The world of rechargeable batteries is full of trade-offs. While lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are currently the most commercially successful, their low energy density doesn't allow for a long...

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February 23, 2013

IBM to unveil ‘moonshot’ Lithium Air Battery

IBM plans to build a prototype next year of an alternative it calls “lithium air” that would mark a big step forward by packing in more storage capacity. While improving the technology depends on...

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February 22, 2013

The Super Supercapacitor [VIDEO]

THE SUPER SUPERCAPACITOR is a Finalist in the $200,000 GE FOCUS FORWARD Filmmaker Competition. Ric Kaner set out to find a new way to make graphene, the thinnest and strongest material on earth....

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February 19, 2013

New ARPA-E $20M R&D program Targets $30k EV with 400 km Range

If you think you can develop an EV battery that delivers three times the range for a third less cost than current designs, you can claim a slice of $20 million in research funding from the DOE’s...

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February 13, 2013

Nano-wire Li-ion Battery Triples Capacity & Charges in 10 Minutes

Researchers have developed a new lithium-ion battery that can recharge within 10 minutes and hold three times as much energy as its existing counterparts. "It's an exciting research. It opens the...

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February 10, 2013

Batteries of the Future – Lithium-Air [VIDEO]

The mechanics of lithium air battery technology illustrated by Don Siegel, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering. View the full hour...

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February 10, 2013

Batteries of the Future – FULL [VIDEO]

Professor Don Siegel, assistant professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan College of Engineering, discusses what advancements in batteries, including Lithium Air, are being...

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