Energy Storage

ZEM is a company working on large battery packs for electric boats and ferries. Dr Lorenzo Grande interviewed Salman Farmanfarmaian for an update of their recent activity.

Analysts at IDTechEx have issued a new report, Electric Boats and Ships 2017-2027 looking at this fragmented but often highly profitable and growing sector.

Sumitomo is a large Japanese conglomerate which is now marketing its own vanadium redox flow battery for industrial and renewable energy applications.

Nanoparticles containing three different layers of material can help to boost the performance of a zinc-air battery, researchers have found.

At the Gigafactory, Tesla and Panasonic have begun mass production of lithium-ion battery cells, which will be used in Tesla's energy storage products and Model 3.

A team of researchers have announced a transformative development in the race to produce batteries that are at once safe, powerful, and affordable.

These past 12 months have seen numerous celebrity deaths, athlete drug scandals and the end of Brangelina however, it was also the year Tesla announced fully automated cars, Alexa became part of the family and Leicester City won the Premier League. As we plan ahead for 2017, IDTechEx analysts have taken a look back over the past 12 months and picked out the most impactful technology launches, acquisitions and products from 2016. Happy New Year from all at IDTechEx!

For the first time, researchers have produced an integrated battery electrolysis system - known as a 'battolyser' - that can not only store or supply electricity efficiently as a battery but can also split water into hydrogen and oxygen using electrolysis.

A little sodium goes a long way. At least that's the case in carbon-based energy technology.

Scientists have developed a transparent, self-healing, highly stretchable conductive material that can be electrically activated to power artificial muscles and could be used to improve batteries, electronic devices, and robots.

nstead of ordering batteries by the pack, we might get them by the ream in the future.

In this article Dr Peter Harrop provides exclusive details of the invitation-only Barclays Energy Revolution Conference which took place recently in London.

Researchers have developed an alternative energy storage system that could lead to a less dangerous and more cost effective battery technology than some currently on the market.

Silatronix is a Wisconsin-based firm that has developed flame-retardant additives for Li-ion batteries based on organosilicon. All major battery makers are testing their compound at the moment.

The mission of JCESR, DOE's Batteries and Energy Storage Hub, is to overcome critical scientific and technical barriers and create transformative battery technology for transportation and the electric grid.

Energy storage systems are in demand as never before. Billions of mobile telephones and tablets need electricity to go. Add to this the growing number of electric cars. But, high-performance batteries can also store renewable energy produced by wind turbines and solar cells so that it can be fed into the grid on cloudy and windless days.

Does it really help to drive an electric car if the electricity you use to charge the batteries come from a coal mine in Germany, or if the batteries were manufactured in China using coal?

The industrial and commercial sector is the largest part of the electric vehicle value market and that will continue to be the case according to analysis in the unique IDTechEx report, Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles 2017-2027.

EleStor is a Dutch company working on hydrogen-bromine redox flow batteries, which they hope can lowball the redox flow industry thanks to a levelised cost of energy of 0.05 €/kWh.

JenaBatteries is a spin-off from the University of Jena in Germany. They have developed an aqueous-based redox flow technology with redox-active polymers.