Wireless Charging for Personal Electronic Devices in the Chevy Volt
From the middle of 2012 General Motors and Powermat announced an agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices...
Nanoengineered batteries could enable the next generation of high-power rechargeable batteries
New Nanoengineered Batteries Developed at Rensselaer Exhibit Remarkable Power Density, Charging More Than 40 Times Faster Than Today’s Lithium-ion Batteries
An entirely new type of...
Printable Batteries and Other ARPA-E Funded Battery Projects
Solid-state lithium-ion battery design by Planar Energy can deliver a three times energy density of today’s lithium-ion batteries at less than half the cost...
The World’s Smallest Battery
A benchtop version of the world’s smallest battery — its anode a single nanowire one seven-thousandth the thickness of a human hair — has...
ILEK to Build Plus-Energy House of the Future
The Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) at the University of Stuttgart has won First Prize in the architectural planning competition "Plus-Energy...
Bad Viruses Could Help Us To Build a New Generation Of Highly Efficient Nano-Batteries...
Viruses have a bad rep-and rightly so. The ability of a virus to quickly and precisely replicate itself makes it a destructive scourge to...
Green Cab is An Electric Concept Taxi To Reduce the Level of Pollution
The rise in pollution levels on highways has served as a catalyst in the development of clean electric vehicles.
Taking advantage of the changing trends,...
Better Battery is Celebrated by the Royal Society of Chemistry
The lithium-ion battery is used in electric cars, mobile phones, laptops and even hearing aids, and by the military and NASA in surveillance and communications...
Solar Power Stored as Thermo-Chemical Fuel
A new possibility to capturing and releasing solar energy is on the run by MIT researchers.
They are hopeful to do this with the help...
Wireless Charging Pads a Big Promise For Electric Vehicles
Thanks to a new wireless charging technology which promises to recharge a car's battery while it is being driven this issues seems to become...