Energy Storage

The new reality is that energy harvesting - creation of off-grid electricity where it is needed, using ambient energy - is now one subject from microwatts for wireless sensors to tens of kilowatts for vehicles and buildings. This is because it increasingly involves the same technologies, locations and companies. One structure, such as a remote building, will tend to use a range of energy harvesting from very low power EH for wireless sensors to very high power EH for charging those newly announced Tesla house batteries.

Skeleton Technologies plans to use the funds for ramping up production of their graphene-based ultracapacitors to meet the strong demand for electrical engineering applications.

This article shares some of the findings of the new IDTechEx Research report, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles 2015-2030: Land, Water, Air and some of what will be discussed in the forthcoming IDTechEx webinar on 9th June.

Chemists have discovered the key reaction that takes place in sodium-air batteries that could pave the way for development of the so-called holy grail of electrochemical energy storage.

Scientists have created a new carbon material that significantly boosts the performance of energy-storage technologies.

MIRA Ltd has announced a collaborative agreement with Fundação Parque Tecnológico Itaipu to develop a new centre of excellence for energy storage in Brazil.

A method for making elastic high-capacity batteries from wood pulp was unveiled by researchers in Sweden and the US.

Sturtevant's Micronizer jet mill is used in developing energy storage technologies, specifically supercapacitors with high charge and discharge rates.

Faradion Limited is an early stage company (est. 2011) engaged in the development of low-cost, non-aqueous sodium-ion (Na ion) rechargeable batteries for automotive, utility and consumer sectors (grid energy storage).

New technology makes cell phone batteries last up to 30 percent longer on a single charge.

Korean researchers have developed a new type of lithium-sulfur battery that uses vitamin C with a 20% improvement in performance over current batteries.

The IDTechEx report Industrial and Commercial Hybrid and Pure Electric Vehicles 2015-2025 now finds that Industrial and Commercial Electric Vehicles operating on land will constitute a huge 42% of the value market for electric vehicles, land, water and airborne in 2025.

A microsupercapacitor may find its way into personal and even wearable electronics is getting an upgrade. The laser-induced graphene device benefits greatly when boron becomes part of the mix.

Scientists in South Korea have developed a new way to store energy that also offers a solution to a growing environmental problem.

IDTechEx's Electric Vehicles: Everything is Changing, conference was successfully held during the 28th and 29th of April 2015 in Berlin.

Video interview with Microdul at the IDTechEx Energy Harvesting & Storage event

Samsung SDI entered into an agreement to acquire the battery pack business of Magna International, a leading global automotive supplier.

LG Chem has been selected by Daimler AG (Daimler) as the supplier of lithium-ion batteries for Smart EV that will be newly launched in 2016.

Proton-exchange membrane fuel cells are lightweight fuel cells being developed for applications in vehicles and portable electronics.

The EVS series of events travels around the world and this year it was the turn of South Korea. Over 2000 people, 60% from overseas, attended the event spanning two half days and two full days with about 180 lectures and about 180 poster sessions.