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Ford to build new US electric battery plant with Chinese partner

Feb 13, 2023 (AFP)

Ford Chairman Bill Ford and other company brass joined Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer at an event to tout the venture, which involves a partnership with Chi...

Hungary protests against Chinese battery plant defy 'Orbanomics'

Feb 10, 2023 (AFP)

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban is keen to woo foreign manufacturers and promote the country as a global hub for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The mark...

Controllable 'defects' improve performance of lithium-ion batteries

Feb 09, 2023 (SPX)

The technique, called nanosecond pulsed laser annealing, lasts for only 100 nanoseconds and is generated by the same type of laser used in modern-day eye surger...

AiDash launches joint grid resilience offering with Schneider Electric

Feb 08, 2023 (SPX)

According to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), nearly 70% of the nation's grid is more than 25 years old, so grid resiliency is more important than ever. Mod...

How to develop better rechargeable aluminum batteries

Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)

Professor Wu explained that due to the multi-electron reaction of Al (three-electron-transfer in theory), the direct adoption of Al anode could lead to highly c...

Stanford scientists illuminate barrier to next-generation battery that charges very quickly

Jan 31, 2023 (SPX)

It comes down to stress - mechanical stress to be more precise - especially during potent recharging. "Just modest indentation, bending or twisting of the batte...

UC Irvine researchers decipher atomic-scale imperfections in lithium-ion batteries

Jan 27, 2023 (SPX)

As detailed in a paper published in Nature Materials, scientists at the University of California, Irvine and Brookhaven National Laboratory conducted a detailed...

Click beetle-inspired robots jump using elastic energy

Jan 26, 2023 (SPX)

A new study led by mechanical sciences and engineering professor Sameh Tawfick demonstrates a series of click beetle-sized robots small enough to fit into tight...

Electric car batteries could be key to boosting energy storage: study

Jan 19, 2023 (AFP)

Renewable energy is essential for the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, but the need to scale up quickly and th...

Researchers gain deeper understanding of mechanism behind superconductors

Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)

"The fact that the transition temperature of cuprates can be enhanced under pressure has puzzled researchers for 30 years. But until now we didn't know which me...

Turning abandoned mines into batteries

Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)

Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, as sources like sunshine and wind are inherently variab...

DOE announces new funding for public-private partnerships to advance fusion energy

Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)

Ignition, in which more energy was derived from fusion than was put into it, had never been accomplished before in a laboratory setting and raised hopes that fu...

Novel design helps develop powerful microbatteries

Jan 18, 2023 (SPX)

Material Science and Engineering Professor Paul Braun (Grainger Distinguished Chair in Engineering, Materials Research Laboratory Director), Dr. Sungbong Kim (P...

Electric car batteries could be key to boosting energy storage

Jan 17, 2023 (AFP)

Renewable energy is essential for the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below two degrees Celsius, but the need to scale up quickly and th...

S.Africa's power supplier defends price hike amid record blackouts

Jan 13, 2023 (AFP)

The energy regulator on Thursday allowed the state-owned firm, struggling with a 400-billion-rand ($23.3 billion) debt, to raise prices by 18.65 percent. Eskom,...

Now on the molecular scale: Electric motors

Jan 12, 2023 (SPX)

Now a multidisciplinary team led by Northwestern University has made an electric motor you can't see with the naked eye: an electric motor on the molecular scal...

Nuclear reactor experiment rules out one dark matter hope

Jan 12, 2023 (AFP)

However new research has definitively ruled out that this strange measurement signalled the existence of a "sterile neutrino", a hypothetical particle that has ...

World enters 'new age' of clean energy manufacturing: IEA

Jan 12, 2023 (AFP)

The global market for key mass-manufactured technologies including solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries, heat pumps and electrolysers for hyd...

A new tool helps map out where to develop clean energy infrastructure

Jan 11, 2023 (SPX)

It can be hard to remember, or for some to even imagine, what life was like before most of us carried around a dynamic mapping platform in our back pocket. Bein...

Electricity harvesting from evaporation, raindrops and moisture inspired by nature

Jan 09, 2023 (SPX)

Enormous hydroelectric dams are perhaps the first thing one thinks of when considering sustainable electricity generation, or possibly large tidal barrages. If ...