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Are Sodium Batteries Already Dead?

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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. ...
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How Blood Holds the Secret to Better, Cheaper Batteries

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How Structural Batteries Just Got 10X Better

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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 ...
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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 ...
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How This Overlooked Battery Might Change Everything

Lithium-sulfur batteries were once kind of a joke. A chemistry so unstable and unreliable that no one took them seriously. But now? Multiple ...
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Why Isn’t This Revolutionary Battery Everywhere?

Vanadium redox flow batteries are hitting the bigtime, and I mean big. One of the biggest Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) ever is ...
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