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Longer battery life for electric locomotive

A leading cause of damage and death in lead-acid batteries is sulfation, a degradation of the battery caused by frequent charging and discharging that creates an accumulation of lead sulfate.

Will iron batteries return?

Electric vehicles whether hybrid or pure electric or for land, water or air, employ batteries on board, where supercapacitors have not replaced them.

Future tablets to be thin and flexible as sheets of paper

The PaperTab tablet looks and feels just like a sheet of paper. However, it is fully interactive with a flexible, high-resolution 10.7" plastic display developed by Plastic Logic, a flexible touchscreen, and powered by the second generation Intel® CoreTM i5 Processor.

Peel and stick solar panels

Stanford researchers have succeeded in developing the world's first peel-and-stick thin-film solar cells.

Efficient military mobile power

Reference designs for the world's lightest, and highest energy density, flexible military charging mats.

LG begins rollout of eagerly anticipated OLED TVs

LG Electronics has announced that it will begin accepting pre-orders for its eagerly-awaited 55-inch class (54.6-inch diagonal) WRGB OLED TV (Model 55EM9700) in South Korea this month with deliveries scheduled to begin next month.

Harnessing energy from tornadoes

Western University engineer Louis Michaud has received an investment of $300,000 for a start-up company that aims to harness energy from controlled tornadoes created for this purpose.

State plugs-in to electric vehicles & charging stations

The California Department of General Services (DGS) announced the delivery of 10 new Nissan Leaf zero-emission vehicles, which will replace 10 existing vehicles in the DGS daily rental fleet.

Large area electronics: addressing the applications challenge

The city of Cambridge,UK, is well known for its historical contribution to the field of organic electronics, and is keen to stay at the forefront of new applications.

Cambridge winner of government funding to research 'super material'

Scientists at the University of Cambridge have been awarded £12 million to aid their research into graphene - a material scientists claim has unparalleled capabilities.

Shanghai offers extra subsidies for electric vehicles

Shanghai has introduced further incentives for electric car purchases to sweeten deals already subsidized by the central government.

Air Resources Board approves first of new generation of clean cars

The Air Resources Board has approved the first car for sale in California, USA that meets ARB's most stringent smog-emission standard to date.

Graphene on nickel: electrons behave like light

Investigation of the electronic properties of nickel coated with graphene achieved an astonishing result.

Advanced wind blade

A project that could fundamentally change the way wind blades are designed, manufactured and installed.

Manipulating light to double solar power output

A new $2.4 million project funded by the U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy aims to greatly increase the amount of sunlight that becomes electricity.

Recharge your electric car through its tires

Researchers power EVs with electricity transmitted from the road to steel belts in tires.

Flexible silicon solar-cell fabrics may be possible

For the first time, a silicon-based optical fiber with solar-cell capabilities has been developed that has been shown to be scalable to many meters in length.

Graphene Laboratories new products

expansion of their product line to include several new novel 2D graphene-like layered materials.

Stretchable electronics and electrics for electric vehicles

This article shares some of the research in the newly updated IDTechEx report, "Stretchable Electronics Comes to Market."