Flow Batteries For Fast Electric Car Charging
New batteries could make recharging EVs much faster.Electric vehicles can take hours to recharge, making cross-country road trips a challenge. But researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Chemical...
View ArticleHigh-Energy Batteries Coming to Market
Rechargeable zinc-air batteries can store three times the energy of a lithium-ion battery.A Swiss company says it has developed rechargeable zinc-air batteries that can store three times the energy of...
View ArticleNew Battery for Cheap Electric Vehicles
Founder of A123 Systems starts a new company to commercialize the technology.A new startup company will attempt to solve the biggest roadblock facing electric vehicles today–the cost of their batteries.
View ArticleA Car Battery at Half the Price
A startup hopes to commercialize a novel design that features fluid electrodes.Last year, the battery startup A123 Systems spun out another company, called 24M, to develop a new kind of battery meant...
View ArticleStartup's Battery Could Provide Cheaper Grid Storage
The key is a modular design, which could make the technology practical as a way to keep the grid stable and reduce electricity costs.A startup called Primus Power has received $11 million in venture...
View ArticleBattery Could Provide a Cheap Way to Store Solar Power
Combining aspects of high-energy lithium-sulfur batteries with flow battery technology can lower costs.There’s a promising new entry in the race to build cheap batteries for storing energy from solar...
View ArticleStartup Shows Off Its Cheaper Grid Battery
Sun Catalytix is making a new type of flow battery that could store hours’ worth of energy on the grid.Startup Sun Catalytix is designing a flow battery for grid energy storage that uses custom...
View ArticleNew Battery Material Could Help Wind and Solar Power Go Big
Low-cost materials could make storing hours of power from a wind farm economically feasible.Utilities would love to be able to store the power that wind farms generate at night—when no one wants it—and...
View ArticleA Battery Made of Iron Could Improve the Economics of Solar and Wind Power
A new type of flow battery could allow renewable-energy developers to store power until it’s most valuable.At a small solar power plant near Modesto, in California’s Central Valley, a startup called...
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