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Fully Charged – Supercapacitors [VIDEO]

Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype material which can store and discharge electrical energy and which is...

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Tesla owners get ‘no-fault’ battery warranty

Tesla Motors says that if the battery pack fails in your Model S electric sedan for any reason except deliberate abuse, you can have a replacement, free, for eight years. That warranty length...

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LG Chem Michigan may begin auto battery production by July

South Korea's LG Chem aims to start production at its U.S. car battery factory in the second half of this year, two executives said on Friday, as the firm tries to revive the plant's fortunes despite...

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Electric Car Batteries Last up to 20 Years

Scientists today answered a question that worries millions of owners and potential owners of electric and hybrid vehicles using lithium-ion batteries: how long before the battery pack dies, leaving a...

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Aluminium-air battery can power EVs for 1,600km [VIDEO]

Phinergy, an Israeli developer of metal-air energy systems, has demonstrated a new type of aluminum-air battery that is capable of providing enough energy to power an electric vehicle (EV) for up to...

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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