EV Battery Maker A123 Dropping Fast, Funding Needed

There are sharp declines in the financial position of lithium-ion battery manufacturer A123 Systems, fanning in a lot of heat on this 10-year-old company...

Yi Cui’s New Silicon Nanotube Batteries Can Get Recharged Up to 6,000 Times

Yi Cui, a Stanford scientist and founder of Amprius, is working on a high-tech lithium ion battery that could last for 6,000 charge and...

Thinergy’s New Batteries Redefine The Realm of Recharging

Today's society is heading towards being a more mobile, technology-driven one. The market has been demanding smaller and thinner portable electronics, and manufacturers were able...

Zinc Anode Smart Battery System Carries Electric and Financial Savings for Buildings

The CUNY Energy Institute has built its "fame" on the production of batteries that are safe, non-toxic, and reliable but still have a reasonable...

GELI to Unveil Operating System That Will Manage Future Smart Grids

In the years to come, the electric grid is to change radically. What is now produced by coal-fired plants and consumed instantly, will then...

Startup Company to Produce Liquid Metal Batteries for Grid Energy Storage

Cheap batteries that can store power from renewable energy sources like wind and solar are being developed by a startup company. Liquid Metal Battery’s...

Battery-Like Bacterial Enzyme Stores Energy Biologically

Clean energy is now an almost achieved dream, especially with the newly reported Concordia University (Canada) physicists’ research findings. The researchers led by Associate Professor László Kálmán have...

EV Batteries Price Dropped 30% Since 2009, BNEF Says

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) has recently reported a 14% decrease in electric vehicles’ lithium-ion battery prices. In a statement, BNEF made this comparison...

Hydrostor to Launch Underwater Compressed Air Energy Storage in Lake Ontario

Hydrostor, a Canadian company based in Toronto, wants to make CAES (compressed air energy storage) become a solution for every city in the world...

Japanese Power Systems Company Sells Salt Water Fuel Cells

A new magnesium fuel cell using saltwater as electrolyte is now being commercialized by Tokyo-based Furukawa Battery, a company specialized in power systems. The electrolyte,...