Material Prediction Could Lead to the Stabilization of High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Batteries
Scientists from Northwestern University have found a new way to stabilize lithium-ion batteries with record-high charge capacities.
New Minimum Energy Efficiency Requirements for Battery Chargers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) has finalized new requirements regarding the minimum energy efficiency of battery chargers.
Published in June in the Federal Register, the DoE’s Final Rule specifies energ... Read More...
Lithium-Ion Battery Shipments to Be Banned From Passenger Aircraft
The Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has endorsed a proposal that will ban, on an interim basis, the shipment of lithium-ion batteries aboard passenger aircraft.
According to a... Read More...
Touareg Hybrid Vehicles Recalled because Battery Poses Fire Risk
Volkswagen is recalling certain model year 2011-2015 Touareg Hybrid vehicles because the hybrid battery tray may not drain water sufficiently. If water collects in the hybrid battery tray, it could cause an ele... Read More...
Achieving Compliance to Small Format Battery Pack Standards
From my days as a young Marine Corps officer, it was stressed that “safety is paramount.” The same is very much the case when it comes to the design of small format secondary lithium battery packs. Failure in t... Read More...
Invention Powers Devices by Recycling Wasted Electromagnetic Energy
A company that is just one year old is about to unveil revolutionary technology that could replace batteries. K3OPS has developed a product that looks and acts like a regular battery, but is actually an energy ... Read More...
EV Battery Pack Testing in a Manufacturing Environment
Electric vehicles (EVs) are clearly becoming a growing part of the automotive scene. They promise low or no emissions, conceivably low cost of fuel from the power grid, yet they will continue to deliver us safe... Read More...
U.S. Navy Spends $81 Million to Power Electromagnetic Railgun
The U.S. Navy awarded an $81 Million contract to K2 Energy Solutions, a lithium-iron phosphate battery developer and manufacturer, to create a battery strong enough to power an electromagnetic railgun. The rail... Read More...
Lithium-Sulfur Batteries are Light, Cheap and Powerful
Lithium-sulfur batteries have the potential to store up to five times the energy per gram that Lithium-ion batteries do, and at a lower cost. The science of using sulfur in batteries is sound, but putting the t... Read More...
New World Record Set for Manufacturing Battery Electrodes
A team of scientists from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has developed a new coating technology that increases the production speed of electrode foils leading to reduced costs to manufacture li... Read More...