Here’s some more top electric vehicle and bike news from the past few days: EVs & Hybrids Chevy Spark EV Now Being Manufactured In USA Ultracapacitor Startup Raises €2.2 Million Wheego Electric Cars Adds Marietta, Georgia Dealership Nissan And FedEx Express Expand Collaborative Testing Of The e-NV200 Battery-Electric Compact Van … [continued]
By Nicole Miller Imagine plugging in your smartphone for thirty seconds and then continuing the rest of your day with a fully charged phone. Then imagine plugging in your electric vehicle for less time than it takes to fill up a standard gas tank before running a day’s worth of errands … [continued]
This article has been reposted from RenewEconomy with permission. RenewEconomy passed around the hat this past week for a few ideas on what would be big in 2013 in clean energy in Australia. What emerged was a couple of key themes – the continued proliferation of solar PV and the growing interest … [continued]
A Drexel University research team has developed energy storage technology that it believes can solve a vexing problem: how to cost-effectively store intermittent electrical energy from renewable sources at grid-level scale. The research team combined the concepts underlying flow, or redox, batteries used in electric vehicles (EVs) with those of … [continued]
Researchers have been experimenting with lithium-ion concepts that could improve the energy density of lithium-ion batteries significantly, but they all have their drawbacks and limitations. Researchers at Boulder Ionics say that it is the electrolyte that lithium-ion batteries use which is limiting their ability to be economical. Boulder Ionics’ CEO/co-founder … [continued]
Surface-mediated cells (SMC,) from Angstron Materials Inc., offer us the advantage of increasing both power and energy densities.
Nanotune created supercapacitors which are comparable to lead acid batteries and they are even economically competitive with them due to their longer lifespan. As with any new technology, we will just have to wait and see where things go from here and hope that this technology becomes cheaper.
