VW to Decide on New 700 km Range Battery Technology by July

Volkswagen plans to decide in the first half of this year whether new battery technology under development at U.S. startup QuantumScape Corp...

Developing the next generation of nuclear batteries

Atomic batteries that don't require recharging and last between 12 and 30 years are being developed for small scale applications that co...

Dyson invests in Solid-State battery firm Sakti3

Vacuum cleaner inventor Sir James Dyson invests $15m into company that could revolutionise battery technology. Inventor and entrepreneur Sir...

CAP-XX Introduces Prismatic Supercapacitors For Automotive Stop-Start Applications

Sydney, Australia based CAP-XX Limited announced that it has developed a supercapacitor module which supplies the cranking current to start ...

BYD to build battery Gigafactory to rival Tesla

Chinese automaker BYD Co Ltd, backed by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc, aims to triple its production of batteries as it takes ...

Lower cost carbon nanotube supercapacitors promise 10x higher energy density

Ultra- or supercapacitors are emerging as a key enabling energy storage technology for use in fuel-efficient transport as well as in renewab...

Google: 90% of Cars Could be EVs and Hybrids By 2030

Electric, plug-in and hybrid vehicles could garner a collective 90 percent market share by 2030, and grid-scale electricity storage could ac...

Daimler to invest 500 million Euros in new battery factory in Germany

Daimler will invest 500 million Euros in a new battery factory in Germany. The new battery factory will produce lithium-ion battery packs fo...

Scientists increase lithium-sulfur battery lifetime by 10x

The world of rechargeable batteries is full of trade-offs. While lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are currently the most commercially successf...

IBM to unveil 'moonshot' Lithium Air Battery

IBM plans to build a prototype next year of an alternative it calls “ lithium air ” that would mark a big step forward by packing in more s...