With State of Ohio funding, researchers at Case Western Reserve University will help businesses in northeast Ohio build and bring to market better lithium-ion batteries and solid oxide fuel cell…
Read MoreDetroit’s WWMT.com reported that GM has manufactured an advanced lithium-ion battery for its electric vehicle, the Chevy Volt. The Volt is designed to drive up to 40 miles on electricity…
Read MoreAccording to Technology Review, a British defense technology company, Qinetiq, is testing a new type of lithium-ion battery for hybrids and electric vehicles that could be cheaper and more powerful…
Read MoreVia press release, Sandia National Laboratories will use $4.2 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds to modify and enhance its existing Battery Abuse Testing Laboratory (BATLab), with the…
Read MoreA chemist has created an ‘upcycling’ method of turning the disposable plastic bags into carbon nanotubes. The research is published in The Journal of Environmental Monitoring. Vilas Ganpat Pol at…
Read MoreIt’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s a … van with solar panel wings? As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen gets under way, Sanyo has unveiled its…
Read MorePorsche announced in a press release that they are offering a lithium-ion replacement starter (main) battery that weighs in at just 13 pounds vs. 35 pounds for the traditional lead…
Read MoreI don’t know much about this other than what was posted at PNNL’s website last week, but I hope to see something published on this soon: Researchers would like to…
Read MoreVolvo Cars is currently evaluating the viability of a fully battery-electric vehicle. This year, Volvo has built and is internally testing a small number of prototype versions of a BEV…
Read MoreThe gamblers were running amok today. Reuters: Shares of A123 Systems, a maker of lithium-ion car batteries, had the second-best debut of any 2009 U.S. initial public offering, rising 50.3…
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