As fuel continues to rise and costs spiral upwards, it’s just a natural thing for people to start looking towards ways to cut costs. As I’ve mentioned before there are several electric cars that are beginning to pop up on the market.
The Tesla Roadster® is already being delivered to customers in California. Zap Electric has [...]

I know we have all read about the battery fires and overheating lithium-ion batteries. We see it on the news, read it in newspapers, and find it all over the internet.
Altairnano has been working on getting rid of this problem. Working with nanotechnology, they have developed a new anode material using nanostructured lithium titanate spinel [...]

To further our commitment to the environment and being responsible people, we have partnered with Metal Conversion Technologies, LLC in order to start accepting your used Ni-Cad, NiMH, and Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries.
A company based in Cartersville GA, they are the 2nd largest rechargeable battery recycler in the country. As we all take a little responsibility [...]

Looks like the brains over at MIT are at it again. Led by Paula T. Hammond, a group of chemical engineers are working on improving the performance of methanol fuel-cells. What they have been focusing on is the separator between the cathode and anode. The current material is called Nafion, however this material has several [...]

There is a group of companies namely Sharp Corporation, Daiwa House Industry Co., and Dai Nippon Printing Co. that have decided to join forces. They’ve decided to join forces in order to design and build a large scale storage battery for household systems. Your average home will use around 12kwh in power a day. Their [...]

Toshiba has been working hard to get past some of the problems inherent in Lithium-Ion batteries. They have developed a stable battery called the SCiB that can handle a fast charge (at 50A) and be at 90% capacity in 5 minutes.
With a high heat resistant separator the chances of thermal runaway are diminished. Even as [...]

The designs and technical specs of our batteries change frequently. The chemistry technologies seem to advance like the wind, constantly changing, adapting, and becoming more efficient. Unfortunately this also changes the requirements to charge the batteries. Some batteries like a slower, less amperage charge, while others can charge quite rapidly.
What battery charger manufacturers are doing [...]

The brains over at MIT have been trying to come up with a replacement technology to the good old battery. For the most part batteries really haven’t changed much since Alessandro Volta came up with the basic battery back in 1800. Granted there are many new chemistries, new materials, shapes and sizes. Now what MIT [...]

Some of the brains at Carnegie Institution are working on new materials for piezoelectrics. An odd sounding word that basically means: when certain compounds or materials are stressed (squeezed) they tend to generate electricity. Sometimes this can be done through temperature, or pressure.
The way I understand it the material Lead Titanite seems to have the [...]

With a 6 Million dollar grant from the Department of Energy, Berkley Labs, with the help of a couple other Institutions, is working on extending the life of Lithium-Ion batteries.
What they are doing for the first time is to study the batteries at a microscopic level. The demand for lithium batteries lasting 10-15 years is [...]