Researchers Discover Way to Increase Life Expectancy of Energy-Dense Lithium Sulfur Batteries by 700%
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) battery technology has long been claimed to be more energy dense than lithium-ion, but life expectancy of Li-S has never been its strong suit.
That may change ...
Germanium-Based Battery Claimed to Double Range of Electric Vehicles
Germanium is all the craze these days, says Nano-engineer Professor Zaiping Guo of the University of Wollongong in Australia.
Guo and her team of research are currently working to ...
DoE to Conduct Li-Ion Afterlife Study With Used Chevy Volt Batteries
Five used Chevy Volt batteries found a news lease on life at the DoE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
That’s where the used, but not used up, Volt batteries will ...
Breakthrough Battery Technology is Claimed to be 30 Times More Powerful, Charges 1,000 Times Quicker
Battery “breakthroughs” seemingly occur around the clock in this day and age.
This month’s “breakthrough” is next month’s old news.
We use “breakthrough” ...
International Energy Agency: World Spent $8.7 Billion to Reduce Battery Costs by 50% in 5 Years
Energy ministers from around the globe met at the 5th Clean Energy Ministerial (CEM) in New Delhi, India from April 16 -18 to discuss clean energy technologies and global investments ...
LG Chem to Begin US Battery Production For Volt in Late 2013
To say it has been a winding road to the start of US-based battery production for the Chevrolet Volt and Ford Focus Electric at LG Chem’s Holland, Michigan plant, would be ...
Expert: What You Know About Lithium Batteries Is Wrong, Can Last Up To 20 Years
Most end of life calculations for electric vehicles are based on an assumption of achieving 8 years of useful operation before falling below 80% of original capacity. However, a battery ...
Expert Says Lithium-Ion Battery Technology Fails to Meet Expectations; Li-Ion Needs to be Safer
This is sure to be controversial, so we’ll premise this post with this: InsideEVs does not necessarily endorse or support the views presented by “the experts” at ...
Scientists Confirm High Temperatures Permanently Shorten Life of Lithium-Ion Batteries
Remember the story of Nissan LEAFs struggling to cope with the heat in Arizona and Nissan responding by warrantying battery capacity to remain above 70 percent?
Well, it seems there’s ...
Are Plugless Electric Vehicles the Future of Transportation?
Has the time come to cut the cord?
Should an electric vehicle be able to travel down the road endlessly, without the need to ever plug in?
That is the ultimate goal of a research ...
1,000-Mile Electric Vehicle Built in UK to Launch in 3 Years?
Behold the 1,000-mile electric vehicle. No, it’s not the converted Land Rover featured throughout this post, but rather a mystery EV coming soon from UK-based Liberty Electric.
This ...
South Africa’s Hideous Metair Met-Elec-R60 Plug-In Vehicle Makes us Chuckle, but Proves Lead-Acid Works (Video)
Lead-acid battery technology is outdated. It simply has no place in today’s plug-in vehicles. Or does it?
South Africa’s Automotive component manufacturer Metair ...
