15 Jun 2022, 13:51 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Li-Ion battery research promises to bring higher capacity and longer endurance, but Enovix’s efforts are geared toward faster charging and increased safety
4 Jun 2022, 21:02 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Solid-state sodium-sulfur batteries offer clear advantages compared to their Li-ion brethren, but until now, no suitable solid electrolyte has been found
25 May 2022, 10:20 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Fluoride-Ion batteries are supposed to be better than Li-ion, but there are few materials to conduct fluoride ions. Machine learning could help
14 May 2022, 10:12 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Manganese is the material that EV makers eye for building truly affordable batteries with better characteristics than current LFP cells
9 May 2022, 16:22 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Natron is ready to kick off mass production of a very long-life sodium-ion battery that offers both increased safety and a very short charging time
3 May 2022, 18:13 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla’s supplier CATL will raise its battery prices after supply chain pressure mounted, leading to new EV price hikes that will further degrade affordability
2 May 2022, 14:58 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / An extremely fast-charging Li-Ion battery is made possible by a new dual-gradient structure design that will allow EVs to charge to 60% in six minutes
22 Apr 2022, 15:53 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Tesla recommends owners of Model 3 cars with LFP batteries charge them regularly to 100%, but this is not the way to go if you want to extend the battery's life
15 Apr 2022, 13:31 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / GM puts pressure on the EPA to approve the use of carbon nanotubes for GM’s Ultium battery packs it wants to produce near GM's Delta Township plant
15 Apr 2022, 09:18 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / A Fremont-based startup that develops pure-silicon-anode Li-Ion batteries has a new technology to prevent thermal runaway inside cells called BrakeFlow
28 Mar 2022, 16:49 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / The EV revolution is in full swing and now the carmakers and the battery companies throw billions at building North American battery plants
10 Mar 2022, 15:47 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Among the benefits of solid-state batteries, their safety was probably the most advertised, but how safe are they, really? A study shows the naked truth
9 Mar 2022, 14:21 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / American Battery Factory (ABF) is a new startup that wants to build a Lithium Ferro-Phosphate gigafactory network in the U.S.
4 Mar 2022, 13:05 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Israeli startup StoreDot believes it's on track to mass-produce Li-Ion batteries capable of adding 100 miles of range in two minutes of charge by 2024
3 Mar 2022, 11:08 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Elon Musk said Tesla could've launched a 600-miles Model S a year ago, but that would've made the car worse. 400 miles is more than enough, he says
3 Mar 2022, 09:34 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Mullen, an electric vehicle startup, claims a breakthrough in solid-state battery development allows adding 300 miles of range in 18 minutes of charging
2 Mar 2022, 16:04 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Many people are reluctant to switch to an electric vehicle citing fears that Li-Ion batteries will not last very long and would be expensive to replace
21 Feb 2022, 16:14 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / While other EV carmakers partner with Korean battery producers from Korea to build batteries in the U.S., Rivian will open its own battery factory in Korea
16 Feb 2022, 14:10 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Amprius started commercial deliveries of a silicone anode Li-Ion battery that has almost twice the energy density of Tesla batteries
15 Feb 2022, 11:10 UTC · By: Cristian Agatie / Structural batteries with 4680 cells are touted by Tesla as the Holy Grail of EV production, but a new leak reveals the bigger cells are far from volume product