Energy Storage
How 40-Ton Spinning Wheels Are Saving the Power Grid
When Spain’s power grid failed on April 28th, 2025, it quickly became a very serious issue. Not only for the economic impacts, but ...
Energy Storage
Why Aluminum Batteries Could Beat Lithium
Your lights just flickered. Not for long. Just a split second. You probably didn’t think much about it, but somewhere a battery may ...
Energy Storage
Are Sodium Batteries Already Dead?
NOTE: An earlier version of this story incorrectly associated the failure of Northvolt to their sodium ion battery production issues, but their challenges ...
Energy Storage
Solid-State Batteries: Hype vs. Reality
If you’ve been following battery tech for the past decade, you’ve heard the solid state battery story before. Toyota promised them by 2025. ...
Energy Storage
The Surprising Battery Discovery No One Saw Coming
We’ve been told for years that fast-charging kills batteries. The typical warning is that if you spring for too much current too quickly, ...
Energy Storage
How CATL Made Batteries 90% Cheaper (And What Happens Next)
What if I told you the world’s largest battery company just announced batteries that cost as low as $10 per kilowatt hour? Not ...
Energy Storage
How Blood Holds the Secret to Better, Cheaper Batteries
This Battery Has Blood In It (Kinda). What if the secret to next-generation batteries is circulating in your blood, and the blueprint for ...
Energy Storage
How Structural Batteries Just Got 10X Better
When is a battery more than just a battery? That’s not a riddle. A battery is more than a battery when it’s also ...
Energy Storage
Why the Biggest Battery Company is Betting Against Lithium
Sodium-ion battery technology isn’t exactly new, but something interesting is happening. CATL, the world’s biggest lithium battery manufacturer, says that up to half ...
Energy Storage
How This Battery Runs on Sugar… Seriously
You’ve heard of paper straws and cups, but how about a paper battery? One you can compost when you’re done with it. Two ...
