Thin and Flexible Glass from Penn State Suited for Ultracapacitor Applications
A new type of glass developed at Penn State promises better energy storage technologies that could power future hybrid and electric cars in the...
Bio-Battery Using E-Coli Bacteria Developed by Students
Students from Bielefeld engineered a bio-battery, which converts glucose into energy using Escherichia coli (E-Coli) bacteria. Their project aims to find an alternative energy source,...
EV Batteries Last More Than You’d Expect, Survey Finds
A recent survey by Plug In America suggests that electric car batteries last much longer even than what the manufacturers predicted in the first...
Air Force Behind Innovative Lithium-Ion Batteries
The Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) has developed an innovative next generation lithium-ion battery -- a promising new platform for creating more...
Silicon From Rice Husks Increase Capacity of Phone and Car Batteries
Rice husks, the waste product of rice cultivation, might just be the ever-so-needed source of silicon, which could boost the capacity of conventional lithium-ion...
Fire at Electric Bike Manufacturer, Brammo, Raises Questions Over Battery Safety
The mainstay for electric vehicle traction batteries is, until they develop something better, lithium-ion battery packs, but could they be safer?
Lithium-ion battery packs are...
Tesla Motors and SolarCity Will Provide Green Energy Storage by 2015
Elon Musk has his fingers in many pies. Two in particular, Tesla Motors and SolarCity, could be a match made in heaven California.
Elon Musk...
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 Mobile Energy Storage System Captures Excess Wind Power
New type of mobile energy storage system based on Lithium-ion batteries, has the potential to store 500 kilowatt-hour of excess wind power, which otherwise...
BMW Forecasts Double Electric Vehicle Range in Five Years
Recently, BMW announced its vision for the future of electric vehicles that, in the next five years or so, we could see double the...
