Energy Storage

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.

Video interview with Applied Graphene Materials

There is divided opinion on future of traction fuel cells in electric vehicles, though few argue any more that they will power the majority of electric vehicles. Nonetheless some manufacturers are very enthusiastic and now could be the beginning of the end of the trough of disillusionment, indeed the time to invest.

What ducks and batteries have in common? The answer is Tesla's new home energy storage system. I will explain why.

SolidEnergy is a battery start up from MIT, which is presenting a solid state battery based on a very thin anode that results in very high energy density. The founders of the company are Dr. Quichao Hu and Professor Donald Sadoway.

Ericsson introduced "The power of touch" connecting people to all the object around them simply by touching it.

Researchers have invented a hysteretic charging scheme, which helps extend the upper bound of the capacitance of supercapacitors.

Engineers have created a battery that is made entirely out of one material, which can both move electricity and store it.

What do the new Apple Watch, a blood glucose meter, a smartphone and a tablet computer have in common? They're all rigid quadrilateral polyhedrons: rectangles that don't bend.

What happens when lithium-ion batteries overheat and explode has been tracked inside and out for the first time using sophisticated 3D imaging.