smartphones Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:26:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Sony Enters EV Battery Business, Could Power Formula E Championship https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sony-ev-battery-business-formula-e-20160905/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sony-ev-battery-business-formula-e-20160905/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2016 12:24:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60561 Sony Corporation commercialized the first lithium-ion battery in 1991 and is now approaching the electric vehicle battery industry. Sony can expect to perform well in the industry, even if it loses the bid for the FIA Formula E Championship, which is electric racing cars in need of better batteries. Electric race cars may eventually become […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/sony-ev-battery-business-formula-e-20160905/feed/ 0 60561 MIT’s New Lithium-Ion Battery Could Be The Future of Electric Cars https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mits-new-lithium-ion-battery-future-electric-cars-20160819/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mits-new-lithium-ion-battery-future-electric-cars-20160819/#respond Fri, 19 Aug 2016 19:44:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60446 Qichao Hu, the CEO at MIT’s SolidEnergy Systems, invented a lithium-ion battery that will last twice as long but smaller by half. This battery is a big deal in that it uses lithium-metal foil as the anode material, as opposed to the standard graphite, carbon, or silicone, and can be used in things like wearables, […]

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