Can Better Place, Shai Agassi's ambitious electric vehicle startup, actually create a viable alternative transportation infrastructure? Greentech Media attempted to answer the question with a dollars and cents breakdown of both ...READ»
Panasonic scored the jackpot this week with Tesla Motors' announcement that the electronics giant will be the automaker's sole supplier of electric vehicle battery packs. As part of the partnership, Tesla and Panasonic will also ...READ»
Lithium-ion batteries will most likely power the next generation of electric vehicles, but Arizona-based startup Fluidic Energy is already looking further into the future. The company, which is betting on a metal-air ionic liquid ...READ»
Lithium-air batteries are a strong candidate for electric car energy storage, but they face a major hurdle: internal clogging due to solid byproducts. It's an issue that has prevented li-air batteries, which offer 10 times the ...READ»
Renault just pulled the covers off its technology demonstrator Be Bop Z.E. all-electric car. It's going to tour Europe to show off its cleverness, and its drive train will actually end up in future Renault EVs from 2011 onwards.As it ...READ»
The best new feature in Apple's [AAPL] new MacBook Pro is the 8-hour, ultra-durable battery that Apple says it custom-designed. But is it really the advanced powerplant it claims to be?
Conventional notebook batteries, or lithium-ion ...READ»
While Li-ion battery makers in the US are going cap-in-hand to the government in search of federal aid to keep up with foreign companies, it's been rumored that Nissan and NEC are about to invest around $1 billion of their own capital ...READ»
Battery technology progresses on a daily basis, but lithium-ion tech still has a place in many consumer electronic gadgets and electric-powered cars. And that's why a consortium of fourteen US companies is lobbying for a ...READ»
