A Nio power swap station in Shanghai Mark Andrews / Alamy The following is an extract from our climate newsletter Fix the Planet. Sign up to receive it for free in your inbox every month. It’s a cold February evening and your electric car battery is running out of power. You pull off the motorway to the … Read more
A researcher tests batteries that use a new material designed by AI Dan DeLong for Microsoft Artificial intelligence can accelerate the process of finding and testing new materials, and now researchers have used that ability to develop a battery that is less dependent on the costly mineral lithium. Lithium-ion batteries power many devices that we … Read more
Aloe vera plants can be turned into living supercapacitors imageBROKER.com/Alamy Aloe vera can be used to make a supercapacitor, a device that stores energy and is similar to a battery but discharges power faster. The supercapacitor can also be installed inside a living plant, to be used to power lights or charge low-power devices. Yang … Read more
Potentially dangerous battery damage that would normally be hidden from sight could be revealed quickly and at low cost using ultrasound waves Source link
Computerised illustration of solid-state battery production. These devices could be lighter and more powerful than current batteries Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock Toyota says it has made a breakthrough that will allow “game-changing” solid-state batteries to go into production by 2028. These devices will be lighter and more powerful than current batteries, giving electric cars a range of … Read more
Batteries of the future could be quantum pinkeyes/Shutterstock Quantum batteries could be charged wirelessly and more effectively with the help of a hollow metal tube and an electromagnetic field. Quantum batteries are a new and still largely theoretical form of energy storage device that can charge extraordinarily quickly thanks to quantum effects. While this property … Read more