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A team of researchers in China believe their injection can give "dead" lithium-ion batteries a second shot of life.
Science & Energy

Scientists Say They’ve Created an Injection That Makes Aging Batteries Charge Like They’re Young Again

By Frank Landymore

General Motors has announced plans to mass-produce a brand new kind of battery that could change the way we look at EVs.
Advanced Transport

General Motors Unveils Their “Groundbreaking” New EV Battery

By Joe Wilkins

Hundreds of miles north of a scorched LA, a lithium-ion battery plant has caught fire — and it wasn't the first time it's had issues.
Science & Energy

World’s Largest Lithium Ion Plant Catches Fire in California

By Noor Al-Sibai

Chinese electronics company Realme recently demonstrated a 320 watt charger that fully charged a smartphone in four and a half minutes.
Robots and Machines

Company Claims It Can Charge a Smartphone In Less Than 5 Minutes

By Frank Landymore

Japanese electronics corporation TDK says its new solid state batteries will replace the coin sized batteries found in wearable electronics.
Energy

Apple Battery Supplier Working on New Battery Material With 100 Times the Energy Density of Current Tech

By Frank Landymore

Chinese scientists have developed an implantable battery that ingeniously uses oxygen already inside the human body.
Prosthetics and Devices

Scientists Test Battery Powered by the Body’s Oxygen

By Sharon Adarlo

A massive cache of niobium-packed "niabobaoite" discovered in China may have broad implications for the global battery race.
Science & Energy

China Says It’s Discovered a Cache of a Strange New Ore

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Paper and wood product manufacturer Stora Enso has commissioend engineers to build anodes for batteries using lignin from wood pulp.
Science & Energy

Engineers Experimenting With Batteries Made Using Wood Waste

By Frank Landymore

Italian startup Energy Dome has designed an ingenious battery that uses CO2 to store energy, and it only needs non-exotic materials like steel and water.
Energy

Startup Says It’s Building a Giant CO2 Battery in the United States

By Frank Landymore

A startup claims to have created a solid-state battery that can allow an EV to cover 400 miles and then recharge from 10 to 80 percent in just 15 minutes.
Advanced Transport

Startup Says Amazing New Battery Lets EVs Drive 400 Miles, Recharge in 15 Minutes

By Victor Tangermann

Researchers have come up with an ingenious new solution to tackle our renewable energy storage woes — which would turn skyscrapers into massive batteries.
Science & Energy

Scientists Propose Turning Skyscrapers Into Massive Gravity Batteries

By Victor Tangermann

A team of scientists tested extremely fast-charging batteries that could make eVTOLs finally become economically viable modes of transport.
Advanced Transport

New Battery Tech Could Finally Make Flying Taxis Economically Feasible

By Dan Robitzski

Cobalt mining is ravaging the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as miners are kept in poverty and live around mines that poison the environment.
Energy

Electric Car Batteries Are Turning This Country Into an Actual Hellscape

By Dan Robitzski

A team of scientists build a recreation of the Nintendo Game Boy that works without any batteries to demonstrate new ways to build clean gadgets.
Energy

Battery-Free Game Boy Powered by Force of Mashing Buttons

By Dan Robitzski

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans
Robotics

These Robots Can Store Energy in “Fat Reserves,” Like Humans

By Victor Tangermann

A team of engineers is trying to build sustainable energy in developing communities with a new battery pack rental program.
Energy

Scientists Are Renting out Giant Batteries to Areas Without Power

By Dan Robitzski