Energy Storage

IDTechEx interviewed Darren Bischoff, Director of Business Development & Marketing at Boston-Power, Inc. who talked about the company and their technology. Boston Power, established in January 2005 by Christina Lampe-Onnerud, is a privately owned lithium-ion battery manufacturing company headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Boston Power's innovative battery chemistry, which is made of nickel-based cathode material, and cell design offer high energy density, wide operating temperature, long life and safety for different applications ranging from industrial and consumer electronics through to electric vehicles and stationary energy storage.

In the final edition of our five-part series of articles on thin, flexible, printed and micro-batteries, IDTechEx Technology Analyst Xiaoxi He looks at how batteries with special form and structural features are increasingly demanded as part of the growing Internet of Things.

IDTechEx attended the Future Powertrain Conference which took place in Soilhull, UK on 24-25 February.

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Super VOOC offers a full 10 hours of talk time with only five minutes of charging, and filling a 2500mAh battery in only 15 minutes, a never-before-seen speed.

A carbon-based active material produced from apple leftovers and a material of layered oxides might help reduce the costs of future energy storage systems.

A key element of the Li-ion batteries limiting its capacity is a material used for its cathode

This short video presented by IDTechEx Chairman Dr Peter Harrop reveals how electric vehicles that never need refuelling, plugging in or contactlessly charging are now on general sale, with many more to come.

Pollens, the bane of allergy sufferers, could represent a boon for battery makers: Recent research has suggested their potential use as anodes in lithium-ion batteries.

In the penultimate edition of our five part series of articles on thin, flexible, printed and micro-batteries, IDTechEx analyst Xiaoxi He assesses applications and opportunities within the broader portable electronics market.

Are petrol prices affecting the electrification of industrial electric vehicles? IDTechEx says the best is yet to come! This article aims to provide a guide on how the new dynamics of petrol prices is affecting electric vehicles in general and industrial electric vehicles specifically.

New novel materials are being developed for next generation Li-ion batteries. One promising anode-cathode material pair is lithium titanate countered by lithium iron phosphate.

The material at the heart of the lithium ion batteries that power electric vehicles, laptop computers and smartphones has been shown to impair a key soil bacterium, according to research.

In the third of a five part series of articles on thin, flexible, printed and micro-batteries, IDTechEx analyst Xiaoxi He looks at the medical & cosmetic application markets that thin and flexible batteries are targeting.

After more than half a decade of speculation, fabrication, modeling and testing, an international team of researchers have confirmed that their process for making carbon films and micro-supercapacitors will allow microchips and their power sources to become one and the same.

For the first time ever, scientists have successfully 3D-printed supercapacitors using an ultra-lightweight graphene aerogel, opening the door to novel, unconstrained designs of highly efficient energy storage systems for smartphones, wearables, implantable devices, electric cars and wireless sensors.

Formula One is significant in two ways. It is a major business in its own right at approaching $14bn and it pioneers vital new technologies in a car or bus near you from the disk brake to the flywheel kinetic energy recovery system and the supercapacitor hybrid powertrain.

IDTechEx proudly supports start-ups in many ways. Our latest initiative is an "EVES Launchpad" for Electric Vehicle and Energy Storage start-ups where they can exhibit free of charge at the large IDTechEx Show! in Berlin on April 27-28.

Video interview with IDTechEx analyst Franco Gonzalez.