Batteries

Energy Storage Project

Viscoelastic Inorganic Glass: Pioneering a New Era in Solid-State Battery Revolution

A significant breakthrough in the field of solid-state batteries has been achieved by a research team led by Prof. Hu Yongsheng from the Institute of Physics (I…

Electric Vehicle Battery

BMW Lends EV Batteries to Weird New Diesel-Killing Electric Vehicle

Electric vehicles are, at heart, mobile energy storage devices, and the US company Dannar is taking full advantage. Dannar has come up with a series of wheeled …

Energy Storage Project

Nickel Foam May Enhance the Performance of Lithium-Sulphur Batteries

Foam. (Reference image by 4ewip, Wikimedia Commons.)Researchers at Shantou University and the Beijing Institute of Technology have developed a new nickel-based …

Energy Storage Project

Octopus Buys 1,000MWH Bess Project to Back Renewable Energy Ppas in Queensland, Australia

Artist rendering of Stanwell Clean Energy Hub, which will include iron flow batteries. Image: Queensland government.Octopus Investments Australia has bought one…

Energy Storage Project

Verkor Secures More Than €2B to Launch Battery Gigafactory in France

Verkor, which in April entered a long-term commercial partnership with Renault to supply the equivalent of 12 GWh of batteries each year (earlier post), recentl…

Energy Storage Project

Microsoft Replaces Diesel Generators With Saft Batteries at Swedish Data Center

Energy storage provider Saft has delivered a battery system to replace diesel backup power generators at a Microsoft data center in Sweden.Microsoft is aiming f…

Japan

FPX Nickel Signs Battery Supply Chain Mou With Japanese Groups

The Baptiste nickel deposit area at the Decar property in central B.C. Credit: FPX NickelIn another boost to the development of its Baptiste nickel project in B…

Energy Storage Project

Energy Department Announces $325M for Batteries That Can Store Clean Electricity Longer

FILE - An employee works at a battery energy storage facility in Saginaw, Texas, April 25, 2023, that is owned and operated by Eolian L.P. The U.S. Department o…

Energy Storage Project

A New Electrolyte to Make Better Lithium-Ion Batteries

From smartphones to electric cars, lithium ion batteries have changed the way we power our lives. And in the push towards net zero carbon emissions globally, th…

Energy Storage Project

Dominion Energy Proposes Lithium-Ion Alternative Battery Projects With Form Energy, Eos

In a filing Monday with the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC), Dominion Energy Virginia proposed a groundbreaking battery storage pilot project that t…

Energy Storage Project

Voltfang: Repurposing Used EV Batteries for Energy Storage

Image: VoltfangBased near their alma mater in Aachen, the founders of German start-up Voltfang have been making the most of the talent available to grow their i…

Solid-State Batteries

Exclusive: EU May Become as Hooked on China Batteries as It Was on Russian Energy

Workers are seen at the production line of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EV) at a factory in Huzhou, Zhejiang province, China August 28, 2018. RE…

Energy Storage Project

Volvo Group, Connected Energy to Develop BESS Solution From Vehicle Batteries

The two companies will co-develop a BESS product that will use batteries from Volvo Group’s electric buses, trucks and machines. Image: Volvo Group/Volvo …

Battery

ESS commissions first iron flow batteries for Sacramento Municipal Utility District

An ESS Energy Warehouse being installed (Courtesy: ESS)ESS Tech, Inc, a manufacturer of long-duration energy storage systems (LDES) for commercial and utility-s…

Battery Recycling

In a US First, New EV Battery Cells Will Be Made With Recycled Metals

Four companies will together produce new lithium-ion EV batteries that contain recycled metals in a US first.Global battery maker BASF, Florida-HQ’ed graphene …