Literally Cooking Up New EV Battery That’s More Sustainable With Longer Range
Another step toward the compostable car of the future: researchers use corn starch in an EV battery to improve range and performance.
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New Lithium-Ion Energy Storage Solution Fearlessly Deploys 100% Silicon
A Dutch startup is betting that lessons learned from the solar industry can be applied to lithium-ion energy storage with spectacular results.
Silicon Solar Cells Hit A Wall, Perovskite Leaps It
Perovskite solar cells could upend the global solar market, by nudging silicon solar cells out of the efficiency doldrums.
Ford Throws Down Autonomous Vehicle Glove, Opens Shop In Silicon Valley
The autonomous vehicle field is heating up, as Ford launches a new research center including an autonomous vehicle partnership with Stanford University.
Perovskite Plot Thickens Around VW’s New EV Battery “Stealth Attack” On Tesla
Just guessing, but we’ve uncovered some hints that a solid state EV battery using perovskite-like material is behind VW’s “disruptive” challenge to Tesla.
Stanford Foresees $25,000, 300-Mile EV Battery Range With New Honeycomb Battery
Stanford researchers have figured out how to bring the cost of a typical EV down to an affordable $25,000, with an EV battery range of 300 miles.
Don’t Look Now, But Your Next EV Battery Could Look Like A Pomegranate
Lithium-ion batteries have been the gold standard for powering electric vehicles, but with fuel cells breathing down their necks, the pressure is on to come up with next-generation performance improvements. A team of researchers has come up with a solution based on the structure of a pomegranate, which could combine … [continued]
Genovation Cars Behind Advanced EV Battery Research Project
We interrupt our all-Tesla-all-the-time programming for this special announcement: Genovation Cars, a company that all but dropped off the radar a couple of years ago, is partnering in a new hybrid EV battery research project that combines a high density battery pack with an ultracapacitor pack and a DC/DC converter … [continued]
Elusive Silicon Battery Not So Elusive, Thanks To Carbon Nanotubes
Silicon could provide lithium-ion batteries with ten times their typical storage capacity, but this ubiquitous semiconductor is notoriously fragile when applied to battery technology. One promising line of research is to apply silicon to a flexible platform, enabling it to expand without cracking. That is the approach taken by a … [continued]
Unzip A Carbon Nanotube, Find A Graphene Ribbon, Create A “Flexible” Li-Ion Battery
In what sounds like a solution in search of a problem, a few years ago researchers at Rice University figured out a way to create graphene ribbons by “unzipping” carbon nanotubes. Well, now it looks like a problem has been found, and it’s a big one with huge implications for … [continued]
