Top News

Haydale recently announced that it has completed the installation and commissioning of a two-roll lab mill at its site in Loughborough, UK, that will allow Haydale to compound nanomaterials into a range of elastomers, graphene included, which will support customers interested in using nanomaterials in their elastomeric products for a range of property improvements, such […]

Today’s lithium-ion battery technology is miles ahead of where we were with electric cars even just a few years ago. The 2011 Nissan Leaf managed just 73 miles versus 151 for the 2018 model, for example. But they’re still heavy, expensive and prone to catching fire. Solid-state battery technology could solve all of those problems, […]

Before Hurricane Florence hit, Tesla gave its electric cars a boost by extending the range of their batteries to help people evacuate. Florence made landfall in North Carolina on Friday before being downgraded to a tropical storm. As NPR reported, Tesla can remotely tap into the max capacity of its 75 kWh batteries in Model […]

Once actually somewhat common, battery-powered trains, especially full-size ones, are less common these days as third-rail-powered and diesel trains have gained in popularity. Bombardier is unveiling a new battery-powered train in Berlin this week – “the first of its kind to enter passenger operation in Europe in over 60 years.” The Montreal-based multinational aerospace and […]

Lithium-ion batteries are the bane of electronics’ existence: expensive, resource-hogging, and energy intensive, they aren’t very sustainable in the long run. But sodium may be. At least, scientists at the University of Birmingham hope so. Researchers are swapping one element for another, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. […]

Lithium ion batteries are dominating the future of electric vehicles (EVs), personal electronics, and grid scale utility backup systems. One additional and relatively new application for lithium ion batteries is their use in uninterruptible power systems (UPS) for large data centers. Participants at the recent “Batteries to Support Critical Power Grids” workshop, which took place […]

Japan’s Sumitomo Metal Mining Co Ltd (SMM) plans to focus on two key customers for its battery materials, Toyota Motor Corp and Panasonic Corp, supplier of car power packs to Tesla Inc, SMM’s new president said. While Toyota and Panasonic are already SMM’s biggest customers, rising sales of electric cars – led by Tesla’s mass-market […]

The US Department of Energy is launching a major research effort to develop a new generation of lithium-ion batteries largely free of cobalt, a rare and expensive metal delivered through an increasingly troubling supply chain. The three-year program, part of a broader effort to accelerate advanced vehicle technologies, could eventually lead to cheaper, longer-lasting consumer […]

The Science Although thin layers of graphene and other two-dimensional materials can be made on the small scale required for research, to be useful these materials must be manufactured on a much larger scale. Researchers produced large, single-crystal-like graphene films more than a foot long using a new method they developed. This method, which produces […]

The firm claims that Tesla is on track to achieve “a battery cell cost of $100 per kWh by the end of the year.” That’s if “commodity prices remain stable”, but otherwise they came out of the tour confident that they will achieve the important price target by the end of the year. The cost […]