The “holy grail” of EV battery tech may arrive sooner than expected, promising more range and faster charging. According to BYD head scientist and engineer Lian Yubo, solid-state EV batteries could be in wide use in five years. Speaking at the 2024 World New Energy Congress in China on Friday, Lian said he expects the […]
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Study highlights complex ocean conditions facing world’s most powerful tidal turbine
The number of tidal power and other offshore renewable energy installations is set to grow significantly around the UK coastline over the coming decades. However, launching state-of-the-art devices into often turbulent ocean flows has the potential to pose a range of challenges for the tidal energy industry, including uncertainty around how they may interact with […]
Scientists simplify design and servicing of vanadium flow batteries to balance power grid
Skoltech scientists have presented a model that facilitates the design and operation of vanadium redox flow batteries. These are large-scale storage units for electrical power that promise to play a major part in the energy transformation and are already used by utilities in China, Germany, and the U.S. to even out peak demand on the […]
Big lithium plans for Imperial Valley, one of California’s poorest regions, raise a bigger question: Who should benefit?
Imperial County consistently ranks among the most economically distressed places in California. The Salton Sea, the state’s biggest and most toxic lake, is an environmental disaster. And the region’s politics have been dominated by a conservative white elite, despite its supermajority Latino population. The county also happens to be sitting on enough lithium to produce nearly 400 million […]
Planned Lithium-ion battery storage facility causes concern for some Sumner residents
SUMNER, Wash. — Puget Sound Energy announced a new renewable energy project for Pierce County on Tuesday. The agency said a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) facility is planned to be built in Sumner off of East Valley Highway. Puget Sound Energy said will help maintain reliability during peak energy demand. PSE also said it […]
Uranium Energy to buy Rio Tinto’s Wyoming assets for $175m
Uranium Energy (NYSE: UEC) has agreed to buy Rio Tinto’s (ASX, LON, NYSE: RIO) assets in Wyoming, US, which include the fully-licensed Sweetwater plant and a portfolio of uranium mining projects. The uranium producer and explorer said the $175 million cash deal would give it key assets that will allow it to boost production, providing opportunities for synergy […]
Australian lithium, rare earth projects secure up to $786 million in US funding
A multi-institutional research team led by Georgia Tech’s Hailong Chen has developed a new, low-cost cathode that could radically improve lithium-ion batteries (LIBs)—potentially transforming the electric vehicle (EV) market and large-scale energy storage systems. “For a long time, people have been looking for a lower-cost, more sustainable alternative to existing cathode materials. I think we’ve […]
Grid-scale batteries: They’re not just lithium
As power utilities and industrial companies seek to use more renewable energy, the market for grid-scale batteries is expanding rapidly. Alternatives to lithium-ion technology may provide environmental, labor, and safety benefits. And these new chemistries can work in markets like the electric grid and industrial applications that lithium doesn’t address well. “I think the market […]
Vanadium is the new battery cathode chemistry, says Pure Lithium CEO
In labs all around the world, scientists are striving to perfect EV battery cathode chemistries – swoping out and switching up minerals in search of the most viable, economical, safe alternatives to provide the highest energy density at a cost that could be manufactured at scale. While the most common cathode chemistries used in lithium-ion […]
Benchmarking the reproducibility of all-solid-state lithium battery performance
To date, there are no uniform standards for research into solid-state batteries, which are also to be used in e-mobility in the long term—even though billions are being invested in this area worldwide. Researchers at the University of Bayreuth have identified the reasons for this and report on them in the journal Nature Energy. Solid-state […]
