22 Aug 2014, 10:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Battery concept news are popping out each week, with many universities and independent teams showing off how they can store and provide more electricity than current lithium-ion counterparts. Still,...
28 Jul 2014, 16:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / Let’s face it, the biggest challenge faced by electric vehicles these days is the ludicrous amount of time it takes to recharge the batteries. If one could recharge its EV in as little as a fe...
28 Jul 2014, 08:37 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As the humanity is trying get oil independent, more and more studies are made on alternative energy sources. And since electricity is the best candidate to power everything, including our cars, bett...
16 Jul 2014, 10:33 UTC · By: Gabriel Nica / BMW and Samsung SDI signed a memorandum on Monday that has the South Korean company increase the supply of batteries to the German company by 20 to 30 percent by 2016. At the event, BMW’s purc...
9 Jul 2014, 10:00 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Another day, another experiment showing alternative ways to create better electric batteries. After seeing molten air and carbon based batteries earlier, today we’ll have a look at a new type ...
8 Jul 2014, 15:01 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Battery specialist Yuasa announces a new generation of high-power batteries called GYZ. The Yuasa GYZ batteries are engineered to replace the YTX and YIX units, while offering a performance upgrade ...
3 Jul 2014, 12:31 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Some automakers are investing a lot into creating fuel cell vehicles, but unless they don’t come up with a very cheap way to get hydrogen, standard electric vehicles seem a better alternative ...
1 Jul 2014, 17:27 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / As a young motorist reading this, you might think electric cars are a new invention and people back when the first motorized vehicles were emerging had to rely on steam power and crappy early gasoli...
22 Jun 2014, 15:23 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Ultra efficient batteries are on their way to power our dreams. The technology improvement has been revealed last month and now racing Team TAISAN said they'll be the first to test it on track....
6 Jun 2014, 15:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / The Yellowstone National Park is the most important part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, the largest remaining almost-intact ecosystem in the planet’s northern temperate zone. It is also...
4 Jun 2014, 16:16 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Scientists are currently working on all sort of technologies to create electricity more efficiently and more portably if possible. So far we have fuel cells, solar cell roads, carbon-carbon batterie...
4 Jun 2014, 15:36 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Petrol goes down, taxes and regulations go up, but this gives birth to a lot of new alternative ways of powering our cars. If those incredible carbon-carbon batteries didn’t mess up your brain...
4 Jun 2014, 15:28 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / When two of the most revered global brands join forces, it's certain something really good is gonna come out from that kind of union. After a 10-year-long research effort, Ford and Samsung reve...
21 May 2014, 18:03 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Everything from your smartphone to the Nissan Leaf in the parking lot is powered by rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries, in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode to the positive one dur...
14 May 2014, 14:41 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Tesla recently said their contract with Toyota is about to expire this year and the company’s last electric vehicle in production RAV4 EV won’t receive any more batteries so it will have...
28 Apr 2014, 15:39 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Electric batteries are in a continuous development, with humanity’s need of having electricity on the go to power its portable technology. Their potential and interest started to increase alon...
4 Apr 2014, 16:11 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Brammo announces a new sales program for their electric motorcycles, a pioneering leasing program aimed at offering more customers the chance to ride an e-bike with a lesser initial financial effort...
13 Mar 2014, 15:53 UTC · By: Andrei Tutu / Lamborghini recently said that they wouldn’t follow the hybrid hypercar madness going on at the moment. The company explained that the current battery technology would lead to either a heavy o...
5 Mar 2014, 15:30 UTC · By: Florin Tibu / Bombardier Recreational Products (BRP) is recalling their Ski-Doo and Can-Am heated gloves and Lithium-Ion rechargeable batteries due to fire hazard, a CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) bull...
23 Feb 2014, 00:25 UTC · By: Gabriel Brindusescu / Well, if you're in the future right now reading this, it might be because humanity failed at some point with other alternative ways of powering vehicles, like hydrogen fuel cells or other great...