Very Fast Battery Chargers for Future Electric Vehicles
Chrysalix Energy invested several million dollars in a Dutch-based maker of ultrafast battery chargers that aim the market of electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Epyon B.V.,produced a "supercharge" technology that reduces the charge time of lithium-ion batteries 20 times below the times reached by current chargers.
New Energy Storage Technologies Help California Reach Its Renewable Energy Goals
At a conference held in San Francisco last month, California Governor Jerry Brown announced that the state will increase the energy storage, in order...
Leyden Energy – Plenty of Innovation Left in Lithium Batteries
Currently, the best rechargeable battery technology that we have available, whether it be for laptops, mobile devices, smartgrid applications, or electric vehicles , is...
Zinc-Air Battery for Electric Vehicles To Be Unveiled in 2013
Electric vehicles still lag behind their gas-powered cousins because of the limited range, long charging times and high cost of their battery packs. However,...
CODA is Back, This Time as a Grid Storage Company
There's still some life left to CODA Holdings, and now that the dead Automotive arm has amputated , CODA Energy can focus on something...
New Polymer from Waste Sulfur Enhances EV Batteries
Waste sulfur could see new life due to a chemical process discovered recently by University of Arizona scientists. The lightweight plastic they created can...
Joint Lithium-Ion and Capacitor Technology Supplies More Mobile Energy
Innovative research by pushing boundaries is inevitably the aim of all doctoral candidates. Steven Arnold Klankowski is a perfect example for this. Under the...
![Tesla Battery State of Charge [SoC]](https://i0.wp.com/www.greenoptimistic.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/tesla-battery-app.jpg?resize=180%2C135&ssl=1 "Software Update for Tesla Model S Fixes Parasitic Drain and Increases Range")
Software Update for Tesla Model S Fixes Parasitic Drain and Increases Range
Pretty much every electronic device in our home, from microwaves and televisions to laptops and game consoles, don't actually “shut down” when we hit...
New Biobattery Running On Sugar Powers Small Electronic Devices
Energy storage device, which runs on sugar, could very soon power our cell phones, tablets and other electronic gadgets. The biobattery is not only...
Paper Batteries In Cosmetics
"Enfucell", a Finland-based company, has developed a flexible thin battery named "SoftBattery". This 0.3 - 1.0 millimeter battery (1.5 or 3.0 V) can produce...
