Metals Tech

China’s Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Limited, better known by its acronym CATL, wants to calm any worries you may have about battery lifespan. The largest EV battery manufacturer just released a new video claiming that its Long-Service-Life Battery packs can last up to 16 years or 1.24 million miles (2 million kilometers.) That’s a lot […]

A new joint study by Fraunhofer ISI and Amazon provides critical insights as to the optimal number and location of public fast-charging stations required to enable the widespread electrification of long-haul trucking in Europe. Using traffic flow estimates for 2030, the study built on Amazon’s open-source CHALET tool to analyze 20,000 potential public truck charging […]

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have opened a new virtual library where visitors can check out waveforms instead of books. The Grid Event Signature Library is an open-access online collection of datasets containing waveforms, which are visual representations of behaviors of the electric grid. Utilities and research institutions contributed anonymized data including voltage, current […]

Sinonus, a spin-out from Chalmers University of Technology (CTU), is aimed at transforming the transportation industry with its groundbreaking carbon fiber material capable of storing electrical energy. Researchers say this innovation has the potential to reduce the weight of cars and aircraft by up to 50%. The material functions as both a structural component and […]

Volkswagen (VOW3.DE, VOW.DE, VWAGY) has secured production of solid-state batteries developed with US startup QuantumScape (QS), both companies said on Thursday, as the German carmaker aims to bring the technology into more vehicles. QuantumScape’s share price surged 33% in premarket trading on Thursday. Under an agreement announced on Thursday, Volkswagen’s battery unit PowerCo will receive […]

A battery component innovation could help keep power delivery high when electric aircraft land with low charge, according to a study led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with expertise from the University of Michigan. The research provides a solution to a problem identified in 2018 in a study led by Venkat Viswanathan, a professor of […]

Making better electric car batteries for less money has become the tech industry’s search for the fountain of youth and more frequently there are promising breakthroughs which is just what’s been announced by electronics giant LG, with dry coating batteries. The LG announcement reveals the company is further ahead in its development of dry coating […]

During a major storm event that eventually cut power to tens of thousands of homes, a fleet of electric vehicles (EVs) were able to feed power back into Australia’s electricity grid, according to a new report from The Australian National University (ANU).\ According to lead author of the study, Senior Research Fellow Dr. Bjorn Sturmberg, […]

Researchers from Germany, Italy, and the UK have achieved a major advance in the development of materials suitable for on-chip energy harvesting. By composing an alloy made of silicon, germanium and tin, they were able to create a thermoelectric material, promising to transform the waste heat of computer processors back into electricity. With all elements […]

A newly designed catalyst created by University of Toronto Engineering researchers efficiently converts captured carbon into valuable products—even in the presence of a contaminant that degrades the performance of current versions. The discovery is an important step toward more economically favorable techniques for carbon capture and storage that could be added on to existing industrial […]