Lithium-Air [LiO2] Solid State Battery Technology - 5x Density by 2025?

Toyota’s Next-Gen LiO2 Battery Five Times Better Than Li-Ion

Nickel-metal hydride and lithium-ion batteries have their advantages, but Toyota's next-generation solid state and LiO2 battery technology could be set to overtake...

Battery Technologies For The Grid Boost Renewable Energy Production

Scientists at Stanford University established that installing new solar and wind farms in order to meet the increasing energy demands in the U.S. requires...

Better Lead Acid Batteries Built with Hard Drive Tech

Over the past three years, Gridtential has been slowly developing a better lead acid battery by using chip and hard-disk drive manufacturing processes. Gridtential used a...
lithium dendrites

Study Shows How to Stop Lithium Dendrite Formation in Batteries

When they charge, lithium ion batteries form so-called "dendrites" that limit recharging speed. They can also destroy a battery by internal short circuit. Researchers...

Sun Catalytix’s Grid-Connected Flow Batteries Promise Cheap Energy Storage

Sun Catalytix, a company which spun out of MIT in 2009 to bring a low-cost catalyst to the market, has changed its main goal...
MIT's Artificial Leaf Under Water Generating Hydrogen and Oxygen Bubbles on Exposure to Light

Artificial Leaf Unfurled, Stores Solar Energy as Hydrogen

Photovoltaic solar cells generate electricity that must be used immediately or stored, but an artificial leaf could store solar energy in a different manner,...
The Latest Velkess Prototype KERS

Cheaper Flywheel Energy Storage System for Homes, on Kickstarter

Velkess, a startup run by Bill Gray, uses fiberglass on a lightweight frame to prove his cheaper kinetic energy recovery system can work in something like a renewable home installation. When...
Honda's NiMH Battery Recycling Scheme

Honda Recycles Rare Earth Metals to Manufacture New Batteries

Honda has devised a way, the first process of its kind, to extract the rare earth metals from used batteries and other products, recycling them to be...

Metal Air Batteries From Fluidic Energy Help EVs and the Grid

Grid-scale metal air batteries were showcased at the ARPA-E Summit that took place this week by Fluidic Energy, a small startup in Scottsdale, Arizona. The...
Alex Tremulis and the Gyro-X

Gyroscope and KERS, 50 Years Old – Alex Tremulis’ GyroX to be Restored

We may marvel at the two-wheel enclosed motorcycle balanced by twin gyroscopes, as well as by a hybrid electric vehicle's regenerative braking system which...