Batteries – Page 11

Tesla bids for a new world’s largest Powerpack battery system in Colorado

March 23, 2018

After breaking a few energy storage records with its battery system projects in Australia, Tesla looks to come back to the US to build a new world’s largest Powerpack battery system in Colorado.

Earlier this year, we reported on Xcel Energy, an electric utility company operating across the Midwest, Colorado and several other states, requesting bids for major renewable energy and storage projects in Colorado.

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Batteries, Battery, Electric Automobile, Science & Technology News, Transportation

48-volt systems could be the new standard in the future’s vehicles

February 11, 2018

Electric cars won’t only be good for the environment — they’ll be good for your power-hungry tendencies, too. As per a new report from the New York Times, companies are looking to turn away from the traditional 12-volt systems to provide the juice for these cars of the future, and looking to a 48-volt standard instead.

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Apple, Batteries, government, Ideas, Marketing

Washington state bill would make hard-to-repair electronics illegal

February 3, 2018

It would ban sales of such products starting next year.

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Automobiles, Batteries, Electric Automobile, Electric Vehicles

Can electric vehicles handle Canadian winters?

January 2, 2018

The grace period is over. Shoppers who drive their gas-powered vehicles to Vaughan Mills can no longer park in spots designated for electric powered vehicles, but some drivers are finding that out the hard way.

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Batteries, Battery, Clothing, Energy

A stretchable battery, powered by sweat, could revolutionize wearables

December 15, 2017

Whether it’s the AA batteries that go in TV remotes or the lithium-ion batteries found in smartphones, you probably have a pretty definite image that springs to mind when someone mentions “battery.” That could soon change, however, based on research coming out of the Binghamton University in New York, where scientists have developed a stretchy, textile-based, bacteria-powered bio-battery that could one day be used to power wearable devices. In demonstrations, the battery was shown to be able to exhibit stable electricity-generating capabilities even after repeated stretching and twisting cycles.

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Batteries, Battery, Elon Musk, Energy, government

Elon Musk has finished building the world’s biggest battery in less than 100 days

November 27, 2017

Elon Musk looks to have delivered on his promise to build the biggest lithium ion battery in the world in an effort to help South Australia with its crippling energy problems. “100 days from contract signature or it’s free,” Musk tweeted at the time, in a deal initially negotiated over Twitter. Musk is well ahead of schedule (a rarity for Tesla!), with the 100MW battery set to be energised and tested in the coming days, according to a press release from the local state government.

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Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Energy, Latest Trend, Solar Energy

The role your car plays in democratizing the energy grid

October 28, 2017

Decentralized power systems could have huge impacts on vehicles in the near future—and not just in terms of how we’ll charge our cars.

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Batteries, Battery, Electric Automobile, Electric Vehicles

Toshiba claims its new electric car battery enables 200 miles of range with a 6-minute charge

October 5, 2017

This week, Japanese electronics giant Toshiba unveiled a new battery that they developed using a new “titanium niobium oxide” anode material.

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Batteries, Science & Technology News

Wireless gadget charging just got a range boost

October 1, 2017

Your phone could soon get juiced over the air from a foot away. That’s thanks to the work of a new startup called Pi. Founded by two MIT graduates, it has developed a wireless charger that uses a honed version of inductive charging to send power further than previous versions of the technology.

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Alternative Transportation, Batteries, China, Electric Vehicles, Science & Technology News

Meet the futuristic personal transportation vehicle coming to China and U.S. soon

September 5, 2017

Leo Liu still remembers the first time he saw a “personal transportation” machine.

“I was an industrial engineering student at University of Florida, and I saw a group of people ride around campus standing completely upright on giant wheels,” he recalls. “They were Segways. I thought to myself, ‘those are very cool, but they’re a bit bulky and unwieldy.”

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Alternative Transportation, Batteries, Battery, Electric Automobile, Science & Technology News, Tesla

Finnish Tesla Model S taxi driver crosses 400,000 km, 93% of battery life remains

September 4, 2017

Ari Nyyssönen, a Finnish taxi driver, has racked up an impressive 400,000 kilometers (250,000 miles) in his Tesla Model S and is confident that the car could last until 1 million kilometers or over 621,000 miles.

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Alternative Transportation, Batteries, Electric Vehicles, Science & Technology News

Harley Davidson’s first electric bike

August 30, 2017

Remember this iconic motorcycle? It was used by Scarlett Johansson aka The Black Widow in an engaging chase sequence in the 2015 movie, ‘Avengers: TNNhe age of Ultron’. Bike lovers were particularly awed by the jet-turbine like sound from the bike as Black Widow skillfully maneuvered it through approximately ten cars at high speed, chasing Ultron’s mercenaries at its best speed.

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